Use getaddrinfo for resolving and connecting

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#17 Use getaddrinfo for resolving and connecting

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Owner: nobody

Labels: Networking (1)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2008-03-04

Created: 2008-03-04

Creator: John Wright

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Use getaddrinfo() for resolving, socket creation and connecting so that IPv6 hosts can be connected to.

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John Wright - 2008-03-04

Patch to make use of getaddrinfo

getaddrinfo.patch

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Jeff Birac - 2008-08-22

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Could someone provide a little more detail about this patch?

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John Wright - 2008-08-27

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CotV uses gethostbyname() to resolve machine names typed into the connection dialogue. This method does not return IPv6 addresses if they exist. This patch replaces the use of gethostbyname() with getaddrinfo() which returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses so that you can connect to IPv6 VNC servers as long as they have a hostname which resolves to their IPv6 address.

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dustinac - 2010-10-24

This patch is included in Chicken, a fork/revival of Chicken of the VNC:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/chicken/

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