RE: [GD-Windows] DNS server temporary change

[Jon W. <hp...@mi...>]

It sounds like the original requester has a specific DNS set-up on the local
machine that prevents the plain functions from working, but at times he
wants to actually get a real DNS resolution from the outside world. nslookup
allows you to specify a specific, non-local host for looking up names, hence
it would work even if local DNS is differently configured.

I'm not going to speculate about what this could be useful for, except to
say that we use DNS as a well-tested, high-performance distributed name
space database in our server cluster. We wrote our own DNS client code,
which isn't that hard -- and it supports asynchronous operation ;-)

Cheers,

			/ h+


-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
[mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf Of
Chris Raine
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:20 AM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] DNS server temporary change


I would use getaddrinfo() to fill a addrinfo structure or use
gethostname() to fill a hostent structure. If the name you specified
exists both structures will contain the IP-Address in network byte-order
which can be converted to an ascii string by the use of the inet_ntoa()
function.

All these functions are well documented in the Platform SDK -> Windows
Sockets.

Of course, you have to link against the WinSock Library and IIRC you
have to initialize the library as well.

hoping to have helped,
chris

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 12:10, Diogo de Andrade wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> I have an application running on a computer with some DNS settings...
> The problem is, sometimes I need to resolve an name to an IP address,
> and I can only do that through another DNS server... My question is, is
> it possible to do so in C++? Or will I have to use the command line
> "nslookup" and parse the result? Or the only way is to implement a
> complete DNS client?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Diogo de Andrade
> dio...@sp...
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