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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libfreeswan/atoaddr.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libfreeswan/atoaddr.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/libfreeswan/atoaddr.3 b/src/libfreeswan/atoaddr.3 index fce8884e4..10da2691c 100644 --- a/src/libfreeswan/atoaddr.3 +++ b/src/libfreeswan/atoaddr.3 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ on a big-endian host and .B 4.3.2.1 on a little-endian host), a DNS name to be looked up via -.IR gethostbyname (3), +.IR getaddrinfo (3), or an old-style network name to be looked up via .IR getnetbyname (3). .PP @@ -91,10 +91,8 @@ DNS names may be complete (optionally terminated with a ``.'') or incomplete, and are looked up as specified by local system configuration (see .IR resolver (5)). -The -.I h_addr -value returned by -.IR gethostbyname (3) +The first value returned by +.IR getaddrinfo (3) is used, so with current DNS implementations, the result when the name corresponds to more than one address is @@ -102,7 +100,7 @@ difficult to predict. Name lookup resorts to .IR getnetbyname (3) only if -.IR gethostbyname (3) +.IR getaddrinfo (3) fails. .PP A subnet specification is of the form \fInetwork\fB/\fImask\fR. |