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leroyjenkinss24
leroyjenkinss24

Reputation: 512

gethostbyname in c works with gethostbyname("www.google.com") but not with my char *

gethostbyname works when doing gethostbyname("www.google.com") but when doing it like:

 char *name = "www.google.com";
 gethostbyname(name);

The connection is timing out. I am making sure my string is trimmed before the function to ensure that there is not any funky characters in it. I don't understand the issue.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 731

Answers (1)

lennihein
lennihein

Reputation: 81

#include <stdio.h>
#include <netdb.h>

int main()
{
    char *name = "www.google.com"; 
    struct hostent* test = gethostbyname(name);
    printf("%s\n", test->h_name);
    return 0;

}

is what I tried, and it worked fine:

www.google.com

Maybe show the code and we can see if the problem lies somewhere else.

Upvotes: 1

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