Is gethostbyname guaranteed to return hostent structures with IPv4 addresses?
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I cannot use getaddrinfo(...)
for resolving hostnames and therefore must stick to gethostbyname(...)
Is the gethostbyname(...)
function guaranteed to return hostent structures that contain only IPv4 (AF_INET) addresses on success, so that the following code would always lead to an IPv4 address:
int resolve(const char *name, struct in_addr *addr) {
struct hostent *he = gethostbyname(name);
if (!he)
return 1;
memcpy(addr,he->h_addr_list[0],4);
return 0;
}
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