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+.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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+.\"
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+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd April 6, 1999
+.Dt REALHOSTNAME 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm realhostname
+.Nd "convert an IP number to the real host name"
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libutil
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/types.h
+.In netinet/in.h
+.In libutil.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn realhostname "char *host" "size_t hsize" "const struct in_addr *ip"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The function
+.Fn realhostname
+converts
+.Ar ip
+to the corresponding host name.
+This is done by resolving
+.Ar ip
+to a host name and then ensuring that the host name resolves
+back to
+.Ar ip .
+.Pp
+.Ar host
+must point to a buffer of at least
+.Ar hsize
+bytes, and will always be written to by this function.
+.Pp
+If the name resolution does not work both ways or if the host name is longer
+than
+.Ar hsize
+bytes,
+.Xr inet_ntoa 3
+is used to convert
+.Ar ip
+to an ASCII form.
+.Pp
+If the string written to
+.Ar host
+is
+.Ar hsize
+bytes long,
+.Ar host
+will not be NUL terminated.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+The
+.Fn realhostname
+function will return one of the following constants which are defined in
+.In libutil.h :
+.Bl -tag -width XXX -offset XXX
+.It Li HOSTNAME_FOUND
+A valid host name was found.
+.It Li HOSTNAME_INCORRECTNAME
+A host name was found, but it did not resolve back to the passed
+.Ar ip .
+.Ar host
+now contains the numeric value of
+.Ar ip .
+.It Li HOSTNAME_INVALIDADDR
+.Ar ip
+could not be resolved.
+.Ar host
+now contains the numeric value of
+.Ar ip .
+.It Li HOSTNAME_INVALIDNAME
+A host name was found, but it could not be resolved back to any ip number.
+.Ar host
+now contains the numeric value of
+.Ar ip .
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr gethostbyaddr 3 ,
+.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
+.Xr inet_ntoa 3 ,
+.Xr realhostname_sa 3
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