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Point out that the functions described on this page 

are made obsolete by getadrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3).
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.\" Modified 2002-08-05, Michael Kerrisk
.\" Modified 2004-10-31, Andries Brouwer
.\"
.TH GETHOSTBYNAME 3 2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH GETHOSTBYNAME 3 2007-10-16 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
gethostbyname, gethostbyaddr, sethostent, gethostent, endhostent,
herror, hstrerror,
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_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
.ad b
.SH DESCRIPTION
These functions are obsolete.
Applications should use
.BR getaddrinfo (3)
and
.BR getnameinfo (3)
instead.
The
.BR gethostbyname ()
function returns a structure of type