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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libfreeswan/ttoaddr.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libfreeswan/ttoaddr.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/libfreeswan/ttoaddr.3 b/src/libfreeswan/ttoaddr.3 index 70671145e..d43d2b16f 100644 --- a/src/libfreeswan/ttoaddr.3 +++ b/src/libfreeswan/ttoaddr.3 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ 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 @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ abbreviating at most one subsequence of multiple zeros (e.g. which is synonymous with .BR 99:ab:0:0:0:0:54:68 ), or a DNS name to be looked up via -.IR gethostbyname (3). +.IR getaddrinfo (3). The result of applying .I addrtot to an IPv6 address will use @@ -115,10 +115,8 @@ 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 gethostbyname2 (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 @@ -126,7 +124,7 @@ difficult to predict. IPv4 name lookup resorts to .IR getnetbyname (3) only if -.IR gethostbyname2 (3) +.IR getaddrinfo (3) fails. .PP A subnet specification is of the form \fInetwork\fB/\fImask\fR. |