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Any chance some variant of socket library has support for socket.gethostbyaddr?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:55 am
by Jibun no kage
Any chance some variant of socket library has support for socket.gethostbyaddr?
Re: Any chance some variant of socket library has support for socket.gethostbyaddr?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:57 am
by Jibun no kage
Let me ask a different way, would it be something that might be added, feature add to say the MicroPython usocket module?
Re: Any chance some variant of socket library has support for socket.gethostbyaddr?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:28 pm
by scruss
I doubt it: gethostbyaddr is no longer recommended for general use:
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The gethostbyname*(), gethostbyaddr*(), herror(), and hstrerror()
functions are obsolete. Applications should use getaddrinfo(3),
getnameinfo(3), and gai_strerror(3) instead.
(source:
gethostbyname(3) Linux manual page).
MicroPython docs add: "
Using getaddrinfo is the most efficient (both in terms of memory and processing power) and portable way to work with addresses.".
What does getaddrinfo
not do for you?