Re: Is LanWorkPlace Winsock 1.1 compliant?

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From: Mark Anacker
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <3v74l9$dmf@i-2000.com>, hpierson@i-2000.com says...
>rscaduto@cmp.hmc.psu.edu (Russ Scaduto) wrote:
>> liamr@ren.us.itd.umich.edu (Liam Hoekenga) wrote:
>> >: The Novell version I have is v4.2 (r42-1a,950127). 
>I have heard of continuing problems with v4.2, as witness the many
>patches. Version 5.0, released on 5/30/95, is supposedly 100% Winsock
>compatible.
>
>Harry M. Pierson
>DREJ Consulting

Except.....

There seems to be a problem with configuring a host name for the local PC -
I can't find a way to do it.  This causes problems with programs that need to
get the PC's IP address, since the usual hack is to do a gethosthame() call
to get your own name, then a gethostbyname() on that to get your IP address.
gethostname() on LWP 5.0 returns a null string, which is rather hard to
look up.  The Winsock 1.1 spec specifically states: "However, it is guaranteed
that the name returned will be successfully parsed by gethostbyname()..."

Since this is not the case, I'd have to say that LWP 5.0 is *not* 100%
compliant, and will break some apps that run fine on other stacks.

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From: marka@halcyon.com (Mark Anacker)
Subject: Re: Is LanWorkPlace Winsock 1.1 compliant?
Date: 1995/07/27
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