why gethostbyaddr() is not safe?

[lakshmiraja]

hi,
I came to know that gethostbyaddr is deprecated in Visual Studio 2005 by the introduction of getnameinfo function.
Can i know the reason for the deprecation of gethostbyaddr function.
Is there any security issues related with this function?
Also came to know that calling this function is not thread safe.
I am not able to get the exact reason for not using gethostbyaddr function.

[Arulmurugan]

hi,
I came to know that gethostbyaddr is deprecated in Visual Studio 2005 by the introduction of getnameinfo function.
Can i know the reason for the deprecation of gethostbyaddr function.
Is there any security issues related with this function?
Also came to know that calling this function is not thread safe.
I am not able to get the exact reason for not using gethostbyaddr function.

gethostbyaddr is not a thread safe fun.., i heard something gethostbyaddr leaks memory in Windows..
i don't know abt VC++, but gethostbyaddr,g etservbyport these
2 functions functionality, you can do by using only getnameinfo( Ref RFC 2553).

Regards,
Arul