On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:24:30PM +0200, Michael Core wrote:
... 
> The following program gives me this result:
> 
> $ ./gethost pop.btx.dtag.de
...

Thank you for your example! My code got 12 for your host too.

> Therefore, I don't really see your problem. What do nslookup and
> dnsquery tell you? Maybe there's some problem with the local or remote
> DNS configuration.

Yup: there were 2 entries in DNS, but 1 in /etc/hosts! Removing the entry
in /etc/hosts means it all works!

Thank you for the pointer!

Cheers,

Patrick