dotted ip address to name?

[montiee]

I'm currently coding a server and accepting incoming connections using the CAsyncSocket class under Vista. Things are working fine but now I would like to be able to resolve the dotted IP address CAsyncSocket::GetPeerName() returns into a nice human readable name so users can easily identify connections rather than remembering strings of numbers (dotted ip's). Can someone point me to the API which will help me do that. Spent a while searching but everything talks about going the other way, that is name->dotted ip, not dotted ip->name. Thanks!

[David Crow]

jbem wrote:

...I would like to be able to resolve the dotted IP address CAsyncSocket::GetPeerName() returns into a nice human readable name...

Which of the two GetPeerName() methods are you using? Have you tried gethostbyaddr()?

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[montiee]

Thanks I missed the gethostbyaddr(). I used getnameinfo() since gethostbyaddr is deprecated and it worked out fine. Thanks for your help!