Specify DNS server address to query

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c540md$25pu$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 eigenchen at yahoo.com (Eigen Chen) wrote:

> Is there any software that can allow application to specify DNS server
> address while making a query ? for example,
> 
> xxx_gethostbyname( hostname, dnsserveraddr ) 
> 
> many thanks,

You can call res_init() before calling gethostbyname(), and any settings 
you configure should apply to it.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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