Name resolution mechanism

Hi,
This is not a bug report but rather a developer query. I had
no other
address except this.
Please forward to the developer mailing list, if any.


>From the source I could not find the mechanism with
which a name
resolution is done. eg; gethostbyname(). Can you please help
me
understand the mechanism.


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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:32:10PM +0530, Bhatnagar Achindra
wrote:
> Hi,
> This is not a bug report but rather a developer query.
I had no other
> address except this.
> Please forward to the developer mailing list, if any.
> 
> 
> >From the source I could not find the mechanism with
which a name
> resolution is done. eg; gethostbyname(). Can you please
help me
> understand the mechanism.

gethostbyname() is a system-specific function (actually
implemented on
many systems).  lynx doesn't really have to know much about
its internals.
It "could" simply look in an /etc/hosts file, but
usually does more than
that.

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