Nut upsdev - Jan 2007 - Re: [nut-commits] svn commit r755 - in trunk: . clients

> I see. For IP4 addresses, will ups@192.168.0.1:3493 still work as
expected? -- Peter

Yes. Whatever is between '@' and the optional
':<portnumber>' is passed as
hostname. Brackets (in case of domain literals) are removed.

One thing to note, in the released versions the use of IPv4 addresses for
a hostname (in upsclient.c) is not guaranteed to work (according to
POSIX):

"The name argument of gethostbyname() shall be a node name; the behavior
of gethostbyname() when passed a numeric address string is unspecified.
For IPv4, a numeric address string shall be in the dotted-decimal notation
described in inet_addr()."

In revision 731, I added gethostbyaddr() to the old non-IPv6 code, which
will retry if gethostbyname() returns a NULL pointer, so this should no
longer be a problem.

Best regards, Arjen
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