Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: eddemain@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Erik Demaine)
Subject: Re: Hostname from IP address
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:18:59 GMT
Message-ID: <DKnx7n.137@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>

Cindy A. McMullen (cindy@Advance.COM) wrote:
: I've installed PVM 3.3.10.  Some of our proprietary code referenced a function
: that returned a hostname given the IP address.  Does anyone  know of a similar
: function in PVM?

This is a feature of UNIX, not PVM.  See gethostbyaddr(3)
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Erik
Erik Demaine                 \/  e-mail: eddemain@neumann.uwaterloo.ca
Dept. of Computer Science    /\  URL   : http://barrow.uwaterloo.ca/~eddemain/
University of Waterloo       \/  Most jugglers do poorly while drunk, especially
Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1  /\  in a large wavelength gravity field.

