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>The DNS client uses the normal BSD API for performing lookups:
<TT
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>Only IPv4 is supported, ie IPv6 addresses cannot be looked
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>If the DNS server returns multiple authoritive records
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<TT
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>where dns_server is the address of the DNS server
the client should query. On Error this function returns -1, otherwise
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<TT
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controlled by <TT
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enabled, <TT
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initialize the resolver with the hard coded address. The DHCP client
or user code my override this address by calling
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should be for fully qualified names. The domain name can be set
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>Alternatively, a hard coded domain name can be set using CDL.
The boolean <TT
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>CYGPKG_NS_DNS_DOMAINNAME</TT
> enables this
and the domain name is taken from
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CYGPKG_NS_DNS_DOMAINNAME_NAME</TT
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name appended. If this fails it will then perform a second lookup
without the appended domain name. </P
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