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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:15:10 -0600
From: Dan Hedlund <markiv AT rangenet DOT com>
Reply-To: markiv AT rangenet DOT com
Organization: Range Net
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To: Alfons Hoogervorst <blade DOT runner DOT shoots AT another DOT spam DOT bot>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: WinSock in Dos with WIn95
References: <199701102157 DOT VAA13896 AT mx2 DOT rmplc DOT co DOT uk> <32d94f0f DOT 1882488 AT news DOT worldaccess DOT nl>
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Alfons Hoogervorst wrote:
> Just a few more notes about the WSOCK.VXD interface:
> 
> - it does not "export" socket database functions. I.e. no
> gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(). So you either need to know the
> numeric IP address or write the resolver functions yourself.
> 
> - before you write a resolver, there's also the problem of getting the
> domain name server (and other relevant data) for the current RAS
> connection. That can be rather tricky. There are several options for
> doing this, one of them is hoping  that the ISP server has a BOOTP or
> DHCP server running.
> 

I've written a BOOTP client.  It gets the DNS server's IP.  I've also
writen a DNS client.  It currently only supports resolving host names to
IP address, but it will support more functions later.  The updated
version, 0.92a, will be at http://www.rangenet.com/markiv/wsock.html in
a day or so.

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