Please can a domain name be passed to getaddrinfo winsock function?

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Please can a domain name be passed to getaddrinfo winsock function?
This is the first time that I will be hosting a server end of a client/server application on the internet. I am used to passing computer names like MDComputer to getaddrinfo function. Now that I am about to host the application on the internet I wish to know if there is no problem with passing a domain name to getaddrinfo function.

Posted 23-Sep-12 9:20am

Gbenbam

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pasztorpisti · Answer 1 · 2012-09-23T09:38:00

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Yes you should be able to use getaddrinfo() to do the job on the internet. Lets try it for example with 'google.com' with HTTP port 80.

Posted 23-Sep-12 9:38am

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Gbenbam 23-Sep-12 15:52pm

I am sorry, I don't understand your response. Your tone suggest uncertainty. I feel it should be possible, but am not certain.

pasztorpisti 23-Sep-12 16:02pm

You have to use this to resolve internet addresses. Anyway, computer names work just like domain names in your local area network. Using hostnames/computer names in your local area network is a simplification: its much easier to refer to a machine like pc_katie then pc_katie.internal.mycompany.com. For your sake I just started my python interpereter and tried getaddrinfo() with 'google.com' with port 80 to check if you can use this as a test and it returned the list of addresses. Now you know the answer and you have test input to work with.