ipaddress from hostname

["John T. Williams" <jowillia@vt.edu>]

I want to be able to get the ipv4 address of a hostname, what function can i
use?

Sincerely,
John T. Williams
jtwilliams@vt.edu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew" <inbox@andy.co.uk>
To: "John T. Williams" <jowillia@vt.edu>
Cc: "linux-c-programming" <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 5:05 AM
Subject: Re: Password Encryption & Philosophy


> Is it necessary to store the password? IMHO it is bad policy to store the
> password anyway because if someone gets physical access to your box they
can
> access everything without having to even look in the password file. This
> could be collegues at work, friends or family at home, quite a lot of
people
> really. I'd avoid it if possible and not add the 'feature'.
>
> If it has to go in I would encrypt it to disk, what you need to find is
> something reasonably uniqe to seed it with. Perhaps a nic mac address or
> something like that. Lets face it, if someone is really serious about it
> they can get round anything, it only took a couple of weeks for versions
of
> XP with the security functions completely by-passed to start making the
> rounds for instance.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John T. Williams" <jowillia@vt.edu>
> To: "John T. Williams" <jtwilliams@vt.edu>
> Cc: "linux-c-programming" <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:07 AM
> Subject: Password Encryption & Philosophy
>
>
> > I had a problem, and I was wondering if anyone had a solution.
> > I'm writing a client which gives the user the option to store their
> > password, and I want to lend some security to the password being stored.
> My
> > problem is that no matter what algorithm I use to encrypt and decrypt
the
> > password (it can't be a one way hash, bc I have to be able to send it to
> the
> > server in its original form), anyone who has access to the source code
and
> > the encrypted password can get the original password back. Does anyone
> have
> > any suggestions on how to encrypt a password with an open source
algorithm
> > and yet lend more security stored information.
> >
> > Sincerly,
> > John T. Williams
> > jtwilliams@vt.edu
> >
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