from the 5.x man page: BUGS The current implementation is not thread-safe. On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org> writes: > > Your gethostbyname() is _not_ thread-safe > > Use getaddrinfo(3) instead. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no >