On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:36:14PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Dima Dorfman wrote: > > Here's an updated patch which is a result of comments from a few > > people. The changes are: (a) deconfuse the usage message by not > > naming two arguments as "hostname" (that was sloppiness on my part), > > and (b) remove a redundant inet_aton call (gethostbyname(3) will DTRT > > with an IP address) [1]. > > > > [1] It probably shouldn't, since as others have pointed out to me, > > "1.1.1.1" is a valid DNS name. The correct solution would be to have > > a flag which makes it explicit whether the argument is an IP address > > or DNS name, but few, if any, other programs in the system do this, > > and I don't think this is a good place to start. > > This is why the inte_aton() call is still necessary. [snip] > Please call inet_aton(), and then _only_ if that fails, call the > gethostbyname().
How about inet_pton() and getnameinfo()? G'luck, Peter -- If I had finished this sentence, To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
