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   From: giva@user.sourceforge.net   
      
   "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.   
      
   h_aliases will contain a non-null entry if the host used in   
   e.g. gethostbyname() has a CNAME different from the hostname   
   used in the query. E.g.   
      
     struct hostent *h = gethostbyname ("www2.liii.com")   
     h->h_aliases[0] becomes "willow.ggn.net".   
      
   --gv   
      
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