Re: R utilities, addresses, etc.
yogo@math.tau.ac.il
Sat, 22 Oct 1994 22:48:36 +0200 (GMT+0200)
> >On a pretty-close-to-related issue, why can't the r utitiles handle ip
> >addresses? Seems to be a glaring omission.
>
> I've actually long wondered why gethostbyname(), if passed an IP address
> as a "hostname", doesn't simply return the host struct for that IP address.
It does return the host struct on Linux (and seems like on SysV machines,
according to previous msgs on this thread). The execption is BSD (including
SunOS and friends).
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yossi (yogo@math.tau.ac.il)