[Info-vax] Which name is returned by the gethostbyaddr(<IP address>) in the hostent h_name field

[Andy]

Hi,

I have not had much experience with IP programming. I have some
software that uses the gethostbyaddr(<IP address>) hostent h_name
field to do some checking.

Is this the name of the host,i.e. the name returned by the hostname
command, or the network interface?

Is there a command that returns this name?

Thanks
Andrew