From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (nscd2) Description of problem: Please reply to piute.mountain. The email account identified by my UID is no longer valid. This is a follow on querry to BUG8736 more than a bug report. What are RedHat's plans WRT providing support for getipnodebyname, getipnodebyname, and freehostent? I'm porting an application to 7.3 LINUX which requires these routines. They appear to not exist on 7.3. Is there a patch, bug fix, or whatever I can apply that provides these functions? I don't want to hack up the code to use the obsdolete gethostby* functions unless there is absolutely no alternative. Please advise. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to link any app that calls getipnodebyname, getipnodebyname, or freehostent 2. Run nm --print-armap on all .a and .so in /usr/lib and grep for any of the missing functions. You will not see them. 3. Additional info:
So you want to use a different obsolete interface (which was obsolete in 2000 already)? Use getaddrinfo(3) instead.