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11 .TH ENDHOSTENT 3XNET "Nov 1, 2003"
13 endhostent, gethostbyaddr, gethostbyname, gethostent, sethostent \- network
14 host database functions
18 \fBcc\fR [ \fIflag\fR ... ] \fIfile\fR ... \fB-lxnet\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR ... ]
22 \fBvoid\fR \fBendhostent\fR(void)
27 \fBstruct hostent *\fR\fBgethostbyaddr\fR(\fBconst void *\fR\fIaddr\fR, \fBsocklen_t\fR \fIlen\fR, \fBint\fR \fItype\fR);
32 \fBstruct hostent *\fR\fBgethostbyname\fR(\fBconst char *\fR\fIname\fR);
37 \fBstruct hostent *\fR\fBgethostent\fR(void)
42 \fBvoid\fR \fBsethostent\fR(\fBint\fR \fIstayopen\fR);
48 The \fBgethostent()\fR, \fBgethostbyaddr()\fR, and \fBgethostbyname()\fR
49 functions each return a pointer to a \fBhostent\fR structure, the members of
50 which contain the fields of an entry in the network host database.
53 The \fBgethostent()\fR function reads the next entry of the database, opening a
54 connection to the database if necessary.
57 The \fBgethostbyaddr()\fR function searches the database and finds an entry
58 which matches the address family specified by the \fBtype\fR argument and which
59 matches the address pointed to by the \fIaddr\fR argument, opening a
60 connection to the database if necessary. The \fIaddr\fR argument is a pointer
61 to the binary-format (that is, not null-terminated) address in network byte
62 order, whose length is specified by the \fIlen\fR argument. The datatype of
63 the address depends on the address family. For an address of type
64 \fBAF_INET\fR, this is an \fBin_addr\fR structure, defined in
65 <\fBnetinet/in.h\fR>. For an address of type \fBAF_INET6\fR, there is an
66 \fBin6_addr\fR structure defined in <\fBnetinet/in.h\fR>.
69 The \fBgethostbyname()\fR function searches the database and finds an entry
70 which matches the host name specified by the \fIname\fR argument, opening a
71 connection to the database if necessary. If \fIname\fR is an alias for a valid
72 host name, the function returns information about the host name to which the
73 alias refers, and \fIname\fR is included in the list of aliases returned.
76 The \fBsethostent()\fR function opens a connection to the network host
77 database, and sets the position of the next entry to the first entry. If the
78 \fIstayopen\fR argument is non-zero, the connection to the host database will
79 not be closed after each call to \fBgethostent()\fR (either directly, or
80 indirectly through one of the other \fBgethost*(\|)\fR functions).
83 The \fBendhostent()\fR function closes the connection to the database.
87 The \fBgethostent()\fR, \fBgethostbyaddr()\fR, and \fBgethostbyname()\fR
88 functions may return pointers to static data, which may be overwritten by
89 subsequent calls to any of these functions.
92 These functions are generally used with the Internet address family.
96 On successful completion, \fBgethostbyaddr()\fR, \fBgethostbyname()\fR and
97 \fBgethostent()\fR return a pointer to a \fBhostent\fR structure if the
98 requested entry was found, and a null pointer if the end of the database was
99 reached or the requested entry was not found. Otherwise, a null pointer is
103 On unsuccessful completion, \fBgethostbyaddr()\fR and \fBgethostbyname()\fR
104 functions set \fIh_errno\fR to indicate the error.
108 No errors are defined for \fBendhostent()\fR, \fBgethostent()\fR and
112 The \fBgethostbyaddr()\fR and \fBgethostbyname()\fR functions will fail in the
113 following cases, setting \fIh_errno\fR to the value shown in the list below.
114 Any changes to \fBerrno\fR are unspecified.
118 \fB\fBHOST_NOT_FOUND\fR\fR
121 No such host is known.
130 The server recognised the request and the name but no address is available.
131 Another type of request to the name server for the domain might return an
138 \fB\fBNO_RECOVERY\fR\fR
141 An unexpected server failure occurred which can not be recovered.
147 \fB\fBTRY_AGAIN\fR\fR
150 A temporary and possibly transient error occurred, such as a failure of a
157 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
165 ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
167 Interface Stability Standard
175 \fBendservent\fR(3XNET), \fBhtonl\fR(3XNET), \fBinet_addr\fR(3XNET),
176 \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)