[leafnode-list] Re: Adding a custom header to posted messages?
Matthias Andree
matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Mar 20 21:41:04 CET 2006
Lloyd Zusman <ljz at asfast.com> writes:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Lloyd Zusman <ljz at asfast.com> writes:
>>
>>> OK. I'll work on this in my spare time, and I'll use getnameinfo if it
>>> exists ... if not, then I'll use gethostbyaddr and IPv4. I presume that
>>> there's some sort of autoconf test I can use to determine this.
>>
>> Note that getaddrinfo and getnameinfo are happy with IPv4, too - it's
>> just a more modern, somewhat protocol independent and threadsafe
>> interface.
>>
>> Please do not use gethostbyaddr, except in a compatibility wrapper perhaps
>> (there are some, OpenBSD, KAME, ... they all have various missing bits).
>>
>> It's fine with me if new features don't work on SunOS 4.1 :)
>
> OK. I'll just skip the autoconf test for the existence of getnameinfo
> and just use it in all cases.
Anything left from this issue that we should cast into shell scripts?
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Matthias Andree
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