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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] socket stuff
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiagom () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2002-02-10 23:46:10
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Malte Starostik wrote
>It does link to kdecore.
>I'm not sure how to do it the Right Way though, there are two uses of
>gethostbyname():
>
>One is supposed to be used from the proxy script and according to Netscape's
>PAC documentation it is supposed to return a dotted quad or undefined if the
>host doesn't resolve. So, I'm not sure how any of the scripts out there will
>react should that function return an IPv6 address...
>
>The other use is in kpac_dhcp_helper, which is used for DHCP based automatic
>proxy discovery. This protocol is also only defined for IPv4 (I don't know
> if there is something like DHCP for IPv6, but here it's definately not
> supported) - the address returned by gethostbyname() is used as the client
> address sent to the DHCP server, and the message sent there has strict 4
> bytes for the IP

There is DHCPv6, but I haven't even got the chance to put my hands on such a 
server or client.

But, given that the specification is for IPv4 only, I don't see harm in 
leaving gethostbyname() there.

Thanks for the info!

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