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60 .Nd "convert an struct sockaddr to the real host name"
68 .Fn realhostname_sa "char *host" "size_t hsize" "struct sockaddr *addr" "int addrlen"
74 to the corresponding host name. This is done by resolving
76 to a host name and then ensuring that the host name resolves
81 must point to a buffer of at least
83 bytes, and will always be written to by this function.
85 If the name resolution doesn't work both ways or if the host name is longer
90 with NI_NUMERICHOST specified, is used to convert
94 If the string written to
100 will not be NUL terminated.
103 will return one of the following constants which are defined in
105 .Bl -tag -width XXX -offset XXX
106 .It Li HOSTNAME_FOUND
107 A valid host name was found.
108 .It Li HOSTNAME_INCORRECTNAME
109 A host name was found, but it did not resolve back to the passed
112 now contains the numeric value of
114 .It Li HOSTNAME_INVALIDADDR
116 could not be resolved.
118 now contains the numeric value of
120 .It Li HOSTNAME_INVALIDNAME
121 A host name was found, but it could not be resolved back to any ip number.
123 now contains the numeric value of