[Info-vax] ACPCONTROL equivalents of getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo()

[Mark Daniel]

Mark Daniel wrote:
> A $QIO with function IO$_ACPCONTROL and the likes of subfunctions of
> INETACP_FUNC$C_GETHOSTBYNAME or INETACP_FUNC$C_GETHOSTBYADDR is the
> documented *asynchronous* mechanism for resolving host names and
> addresses (equivalents of the BSD calls gethostbyname() and
> gethostbyaddr()).
>
> This seems only able to return A records. I am looking for the
> asynchronous AAAA record equivalents of the likes of getaddrinfo() and
> getnameinfo() ... but without much success.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction (or tell me there is no
> such)? TIA.
>
> (HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.6 - ECO 2, FWIW.)

My regrets over the multiple posts (explanation is too banal).