In <3785790301733305.wa.paulgboulderaim....@bama.ua.edu>, on
02/25/2012
   at 10:34 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:

>I don't know how the client is expected to choose among the
>responses,

That depends on how it's coded.

>nor what GetHostByName returns.

An alias array and an address array. More precisely, it returns a
pointer to a hostent structure containing 5 data, of which h_length
and h_addr give you the addresses.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
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