[boost] Re: SocketAddress and Nameresolution

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-26 10:25:32

Hu Xinwei wrote:

 > That poster was me(sorry, I dont familiar with wiki). IMHO,
 > addrinfo/getaddrinof/freeaddrinfo are much better than those
 > obsoleted gethostbyname.... The reasons are simple.
 >
 > 1. getaddrinfo is thread-safe. And not all OS provide those
 > functions like gethostbyname_r
 >
 > 2. getaddrinfo resovle one name to multiaddresses, especially a
 > name with both IPv4 addresses, and IPv6 addresses.

Just as a side note. getaddrinfo is only supported on Windows XP and 
above, no 95/98/Me/NT/2000.

Markus