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Hello,

    I am programming a network app that needs to reverse host-name
look-up.  This means that given an IP address x.x.x.x, it needs to be
able to request the registered name associated server from DNS.
    What would be the easiest way to do this?  Is there a function
somewhere that is all ready to go?
    Any information that can be provided is most helpful.

Thanks,
Brian Ferris

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Quote:> Hello,

>     I am programming a network app that needs to reverse host-name
> look-up.  This means that given an IP address x.x.x.x, it needs to be
> able to request the registered name associated server from DNS.
>     What would be the easiest way to do this?  Is there a function
> somewhere that is all ready to go?
>     Any information that can be provided is most helpful.

> Thanks,
> Brian Ferris

<Jack>

The standard C++ language does not support networking, so please leave
comp.lang.c++ off your cross post list when asking this type of
question in the future.

</Jack>
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    Is this the correct news group at all?  If not, where should I be
posting my question?

Brian Ferris

If you are developing for Windows, you need to check out the winsock
API.

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Tim Slattery

Hi Brian,

As you are posting this question to a Linux group too I suppose you want
a sulution running under Linux.
You can use the C-functions provided. There is a function gethostbyaddr.
Type in "man 3 gethostbyaddr" for more information about. You might want
to read "Unix Network Programming - Volume 1" by R.W.Stevens (ISBN
0-13-490012-X). This is all for C though. There might be C++ libraries
arround that offer this functions wrapped into a object or you might
write one yourself.

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