Win32 gethostbyaddr() does NetBIOS query?

[Gerald Carter]

Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> On a different mailing list, the suggestion was posted that 
> the Windows version of gethostbyaddr() will send a NetBIOS 
> query to the address to try and get the NetBIOS name before 
> doing a DNS lookup.  A few folks have written in to support 
> this claim with empirical evidence (no sniffer traces yet, 
> I'm 'fraid).


Chris,  I haven't actually coded it up, but simply 
trying to ping a hostname on NT4 will attempt to resolve the
hostname in DNS first and then do a query for MACHINE<00>.
The docs with VC++ 4.2 don't seem to indicate what it queries,
but my gut is that if it does query Netbios, that it would be 
second.  Don't know for sure though.



j-
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