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From: abmg@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Aliasghar Babadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: sgi problem
Keywords: sgi bind gethostbyname
Message-ID: <1578@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 17:38:40 GMT
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  I have some problem with the following system calls on sgi
  gethostbyname() and bind()

  if I give the address in string format (name) I get error 
  gethostbyname: connection refused
  bind: : Invalid argument , The socket is already bound to an address.

  I found a way out for gethostbyname by linking with -lsun -lbsd to read 
from yellowpages.
  but couldn't find a solution for bind. If I give the dot notation address
there is no problem, but when I give the string address (name ) I get the
bind error. Thanks for your help.