INN 2.3.1 cant get hostbyaddr bug

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Oleg Gawriloff wrote:

> accroding to man gethostbyaddr and netdbm.h if gethostbyaddr returns 0 it
> means success.

Err, are you sure about that?


Linux GETHOSTBYNAME(3):
RETURN VALUE
       The  gethostbyname()  and gethostbyaddr() functions return
       the hostent structure  or  a  NULL  pointer  if  an  error
       occurs.   On  error,  the  h_errno variable holds an error
       number.

OpenBSD GETHOSTBYNAME(3):
DIAGNOSTICS
     Error return status from gethostbyname(), gethostbyname2(), and
     gethostbyaddr() is indicated by return of a null pointer.  The external
     integer h_errno may then be checked to see whether this is a temporary
     failure or an invalid or unknown host.



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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org