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- drdowns@bach.udel.edu (David Robert Downs) writes:
-
- >Hello all,
-
- > I have 2 Winsock apps which give "gethostbyname" errors. One is Wintalk
- >and the other is ws_gmail (an SMTP server for Winsock). I had wintalk
- >working fine under PCTCP 2.2 and when I upgraded to 2.3 it quit working.
-
- I had various problems with the WINSOCK.DLL shipped with v2.3b PC/TCP. I had
- to FTP a later winsock.dll from their server (vax.ftp.com, I think) .
-
- If using that winsock.dll doesn't solve your problem, see if you can get
- the szDescription string which is returned when you do a WSAStartup()
- call to PC/TCP's winsock.dll . That string will indicate the FTP date
- and version of the winsock.dll you are using. If you post that info, and
- I have that version handy, I'll check out gethostbyname() with
- an app we are alpha testing.
-
- The only problem I have had recently with gethostbyname() and PC/TCP
- was fixed by adding my local host name to the HOSTS file. Specifically,
- I had incorrectly assumed that a gethostbyname() for my local hostname
- would succeed as long as my local hostname was in PCTCP.INI .
-
- Ray Wood, rawood@rd1.interlan.com
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