hostent

This structure is allocated by Windows Sockets. An application should never attempt to modify this structure or to free any of its components. Furthermore, only one copy of this structure is allocated per thread, and so the application should copy any information that it needs before issuing any other Windows Sockets API calls.

struct hostent {

char FAR * h_name;

char FAR * FAR * h_aliases;

short h_addrtype;

short h_length;

char FAR * FAR * h_addr_list;

};

Members

h_name

Official name of the host (PC).If using the DNS or similar resolution system, it is the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) that caused the server to return a reply. If using a local "hosts" file, it is the first entry after the IP address.

h_aliases

A NULL-terminated array of alternate names.

h_addrtype

The type of address being returned.

h_length

The length, in bytes, of each address.

h_addr_list

A NULL-terminated list of addresses for the host. Addresses are returned in network byte order.The macro h_addr is defined to be h_addr_list[0] for compatibility with older software.

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