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I ain't afraid of no GHOST – securo-bods

Raedwald Bretwalda
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The opening words of the Description section of the man page for gethostbyname says

The gethostbyname*() and gethostbyaddr*() functions are obsolete. Applications should use getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3) instead.

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