This structure is allocated by Windows Sockets. An application should never attempt to modify this structure or to free any of its components. Furthermore, only one copy of this structure is allocated per thread, and so the application should copy any information that it needs before issuing any other Windows Sockets API calls.
At a Glance
Header file: | Winsock.h |
Windows CE versions: | 1.0 and later |
Syntax
struct hostent {
char FAR
*h_name;
char FAR *FAR
*h_aliases;
short
h_addrtype;
short
h_length;
char FAR * FAR *
h_addr_list;
};
Members
h_name
Official name of the host (PC).If using the DNS or similar resolution system, it is the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) that caused the server to return a reply. If using a local “hosts” file, it is the first entry after the IP address.
h_aliases
Null-terminated array of alternate names.
h_addrtype
Type of address being returned.
h_length
Length, in bytes, of each address.
h_addr_list
Null-terminated list of addresses for the host. Addresses are returned in network byte order. The macro h_addr is defined to be h_addr_list[0] for compatibility with older software.