>> for me yes. >Um. What version of getaddrinfo.c are you referring? I guess the >head revision as of today is 1.42, and ... >> 2. when host == NULL and ai_family is not supported by the kernel, >> EAI_FAMILY will be returned. >... it actually returns EAI_NONAME in this case. oops i should have checked (2) more carefully. you right. itojun