On 4/9/2013 14:10, Tomas Hajny wrote:
On Tue, April 9, 2013 19:51, waldo kitty wrote:
On 4/9/2013 04:24, Tomas Hajny wrote:
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Have you tried using unit netdb from package fcl-net? It doesn't support
Windows (and some other platforms yet), but it should work for Unix
targets. I believe that the two approaches for finding out the domain
are either getting it from the DNS or having it specified in /etc/resolv
(and both are used by unit netdb - search for DefaultDomainList).
shouldn't the OS' lookup routines handle whether the value from HOSTS or
DNS is used automatically? i know that on some systems, one can specify
to use HOSTS first (ie: USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1 [OS2] or /etc/host.conf
[*nix])... i've seen it in winwhatever once upon a long time ago...
That depends on what API provided by the respective OS. As far as I
understand it correctly, Unix does not provide such functionality in the
basic API (syscalls) but only e.g. in libc (which is in turn used by
nslookup, etc.), so Pascal code (for Unix) not using libc needs to
implement this logic (that's what unit netdb does).
ahhhhh... ok... i hadn't yet had a chance to go looking in that unit... trying
to first complete the email wading for the day ;)
FWIW: if i were to just be hunting and digging, the name of the unit would throw
me off because it seems to indicate network database functions whereas i
wouldn't think that DNS lookups and the like are database oriented... not like
SQL stuff... but i guess the DNS is a form of database, isn't it ;)
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