[Regicide]

I was wondering, after using the gethostbyname() function in C/C++, how do I change the returned ip in h_addr_list[0] to a standard dot IP: 657.902.876.094 (something like that)?

[Rockn]

does it only return the host name?

[Regicide]

No, the function gethostbyname() returns a hostent stucture. Which looks like this:

struct  hostent {
        char*   h_name;           /* official name of host */
        char** h_aliases;         /* alias list */
        short    h_addrtype;      /* host address type */
        short    h_length;         /* length of address */
        char** h_addr_list;      /* list of addresses */
};