How can I translate IP to hostname in C

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:30:45PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> John Timony wrote:
> >Hi,guys
> >
> >I am writing a c program in FreeBSD,and I can not
> >translate a ip to hostname
> >,i wonder if there is a function to take this job...
> >
> 
> You could use gethostbyaddr(3), but those traditional functions have 
> been replaced with more flexible versions such as getnameinfo(3) on 
> newer systems.  There's a good introduction to modern sockets 
> programming at http://people.redhat.com/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html

Ups - yes that's what I ment in my mail.
I wrote getaddrinfo, which is the other direction...

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