On 06/20/2010 04:41 AM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
2010/6/17 Bernie Innocenti <bernie(a)codewiz.org>:
> Hello,
>
> xchat in Fedora needs to be restarted after switching to a different
> nameserver or it fails to resolve.
>
> The xchat developers say that all xchat does is call gethostbyname(). A
There was a topic 3 years ago about replacing gethostby* functions by
getaddrinfo
Is this still relevant?
You definitely still want to replace gethostbyname with getaddrinfo,
because gethostbyname can't handle IPv6 addresses. But that's not
relevant to this particular problem (noticing resolv.conf updates)
because both functions use the same internal glibc methods, they just
package the results differently.
-- Dan