WINC1500 IoT Software APIs: gethostbyname

WINC1500 IoT Software API

WINC1500 IoT Software APIs  19.5.2
WINC Software API Reference Manual
gethostbyname

Functions

NMI_API sint8 gethostbyname (uint8 *pcHostName)
 

Detailed Description

Asynchronous DNS resolving function. This function use DNS to resolve a domain name into the corresponding IP address. A call to this function will cause a DNS request to be sent and the response will be delivered to the DNS callback function registered using registerSocketCallback()

Function Documentation

◆ gethostbyname()

NMI_API sint8 gethostbyname ( uint8 pcHostName)
Parameters
[in]pcHostNameNULL terminated string containing the domain name for the remote host. Its size must not exceed HOSTNAME_MAX_SIZE.
See also
registerSocketCallback
Warning
Successful completion of a call to gethostbyname() does not guarantee success of the DNS request, a negative return value indicates only locally-detected errors
Returns
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