Guus Sliepen wrote: > From the getipnodebyname(3) manpage: > > NOTES > These functions were present in glibc 2.1.91-95, but were removed > again. Several Unix-like systems support them, but all call them > deprecated. > > The best way is to use getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo(). Whoops; sorry. Those were the functions I was thinking of that supersede gethostby*(). -- Robert Edmonds edmonds@debian.org