I use gethostbyaddr and get a given hostname.
When i give the same host name while using gethostbyname i get a different ip address.
What could be the reason, is it fetching different address because of multi homed interface system or it has to anything with DNS configuration.
The code i used is as follows :
GETHOSTBYADDR --------------
#include<stdio.h>
#include<sys/socket.h>
#include<netdb.h>
int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
struct hostent *host; unsigned long adr;
if (((int)adr = inet_addr(argv[1])) == -1)
{
printf("\n incorrect format of ip address");
}
if((host = gethostbyaddr((char *)&adr,15,AF_INET)) != NULL)
{
printf("\n address %s",host->h_addr_list[0]);
printf("\n address type %d",host->h_addrtype);
printf("\n address length %d",host->h_length);
printf("\n name %s",host->h_name);
}
herror("");
}GETHOSTBYNAME
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#include<stdio.h>
#include<sys/socket.h>
#include<netdb.h>
int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
struct hostent *host;
if((host = gethostbyname(argv[1])) != NULL)
{
printf("\n address %s",inet_ntoa(host->h_addr_list[0]));
printf("\n address type %d",host->h_addrtype);
printf("\n address length %d",host->h_length);
}
herror("");
}Thanks, Sudharsan.
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