Jurgen Haan <jurgen@fake.tld> wrote:
> Uhm... not being a programmer, or anything, but isn't gethostbyname
> used for resolving names into adresses and not the other way around?

Yes, but for the last decade or so just about everyone's
gethostbyname() is willing to take-in an IPv4 address as a
dotted-decimal string.

However, for the last, oh five years or so, people should be migrating
to getaddrinfo() rather than gethostbyname()... :)

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