site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com gethostname doesn't really do what you may think it does. It is not guaranteed to return a name that can be resolved using gethostbyname. Some of the time, that does work, but it's just by chance. You may be looking for getifaddrs, but it's hard to know without knowing what you're actually trying to accomplish. -josh On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Laurie Gill wrote:

The following code snippet seems to work on intel but I get mixed results on powerpc. Gethostname always returns noErr but sometimes the name I get back doesn't work in gethostbyname. Result: Host is nil and h_errno is 1.

char hostnamebuf[256]; struct hostent *host;

if ((err = gethostname(hostnamebuf, sizeof(hostnamebuf))) == 0) host = gethostbyname(hostnamebuf);

Example: The name I get is "plechatovm2k3-0" The name I should get is "plechatovm2k3-0.lss.corp.com". This one works when I hard code it.

Any ideas?

Thanks Laurie Gill Roxio Retrospect Sonic Solutions

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