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   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
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    SpreadTooThin  wrote:   
      
   > I'm printing them out as part of a debug, but the list is always null   
   > no matter what host name I use..   
   > Makes me wonder if I know what its purpose is.   
      
   I think it's usually only filled in if the hostname was found in   
   /etc/hosts, and it has aliases.  E.g. if /etc/hosts has a line like:   
      
   foo.bar.com 1.2.3.4 foo myfoo   
      
   and you look up foo.bar.com, h_aliases will contain "foo" and "myfoo".   
      
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