Martin Schulze wrote (Wed, 26 Aug 1998 02:12:58 +0200 ): |>> Martin Schulze wrote (Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:04:36 +0200 ): |>> |>If you want to write portable programs then you use gethostname() to |>> |>determine the hostname, check for a '.' and if it's not included you |>> |>use gethostbyname() to get the fqdn. For an example, take a look at |>> |>the syslogd source. |> |>This doesn't work on Solaris? Why, you should tell us why it fails. |>
ok, i've found one case where neither gethostname() nor the method Joey descibed worked in getting the fqdn. on that particular machine, i found that the h_name field still had the simple name, but that h_aliases[0] contained the fqdn. so, it's in there somewhere, it's just not always in the h_name field of the struct hostent. now my question is this: how does one tell how many aliases are in the h_aliases vector? do i just keep examining the elements of the vector until one of them is null? thanks everyone... -alan
