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gethostbyname The Windows Sockets gethostbyname function retrieves host information corresponding to a host name from a host database.
VB4-32,5,6
Declare Function gethostbyname Lib "WSOCK32" (ByVal szHost As String) As Long |
VB.NET
System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName |
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Operating Systems Supported |
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Requires Windows Sockets 1.1 or later |
- name
[out] A pointer to the null-terminated name of the host to resolve. |
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If no error occurs, gethostbyname returns a pointer to the HOSTENT structure described above. Otherwise, it returns a NULL pointer and a specific error number can be retrieved by calling WSAGetLastError. |
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