Re: [boost] [asio] resolve hostname from numeric IP address?

Subject: Re: [boost] [asio] resolve hostname from numeric IP address?
From: Andreas Masur (amasur_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-15 18:37:52

On Mar 14, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Brian and Victoria wrote:

> This took several hours of web searching and trying to make sense of  
> the asio documentation, but...
>
> <snip>
> boost::asio::ip::tcp::endpoint  
> ep(boost::asio::ip::address_v4(0xD155AB64), 80);  // 209.85.171.100:80
> boost::asio::ip::tcp::resolver resolver(ios);
> boost::asio::ip::tcp::resolver::iterator iter = resolver.resolve(ep);
> boost::asio::ip::tcp::resolver::iterator end;
> while (iter != end)
> {
> std::cerr << (*iter).host_name() << std::endl;  // cg-in- 
> f100.google.com
> ++iter;
> }
> <snip>
>
> ...produces the desired results.
>
> I'm posting this because I found other posts like mine that had not  
> been responded to.

Thanks for posting this....may be this could *now* be included in the  
documentation.....

Ciao, Andreas