Re: Help on DNS gethostbyname( )

[Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>]

>     Hi,
>     
>        What will be returned by the function gethostbyname( ) when an alias 
>     is passed to it instead of a CNAME?  Will it return the A record or the 
>     CNAME?   And does it depend on the name server or the implementation of 
>     the Winsock stack?  
>     
>        Any suggestion is much appreciated.

It is supposed to return the CNAME in the h_name field,
the original alias in the h_aliases list, and at least
one address associated with the alias in the h_addr_list
-- for DNS, the last is usually an A record pointed to by
the CNAME.

Sanjay.