Open System Services Library Calls Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

OSS Library Calls (g - h) gethostbyaddr(3)
NO_DATA The address you used is not valid. This is not a soft error; another type of name
server request might be successful.
NO_RECOVERY
A server failure occurred. This is a nonrecoverable error.
TRY_AGAIN An error occurred that might have been caused by a transient condition. A later
retry might succeed.
FILES
/etc/hosts The Internet network hostname database. Each record in the file occupies a sin-
gle line and has three fields: the host address, the official hostname, and aliases.
/etc/resolv.conf
The resolver configuration file.
RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: gethostbyname(3), endhostent(3), sethostent(3).
Files: hosts(4).
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