i'm now writing a program to ping a website
]Code:if((he=gethostbyname("www.yahoo.com"))==NULL) { call(); }
and i'm using the code above to get the host ip and then send icmp to with another function().
but once the server is unknown i will need to wait for 16 or 17 seconds before the program continue to call(). anyway that i can minimize the waiting time?
i've post to gd before but since i mention bout this c-coding so i think i did better post here.
you can use signals to make your own timer for it. google for it, as I don't think the faq has info about them, or maybe it does, I'm too lazy to look
You could look up asynchronous socket or multithreaded (pthread) programming, and possibly do something else while gethostbyname is executing. I don't think there's much you can do about the delay itself, however, short of getting a faster internet connection.
Beej's socket tutorial: http://lib.daemon.am/Books/BGNET/html/intro.html
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If using Windows, this thread may help. Obviosly, you would use getaddrinfo rather than getnameinfo.
