getnodebyname3

Usage

Overview

getnodebyname searches the decnet hosts file for the DECnet node with name equal to name and returns node information into the nodeent structure.
If no entry is found, returns NULL

Examples

#include <netdnet/dn.h>
#include <netdnet/dnetdb.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
main(void)
{
    struct nodeent		*dp;
    if ( (dp=getnodebyname("mv3100")) == NULL)
	   printf("Error, cannot find node entry");
    else
	   printf("Node name is %s",dp->n_name);
}