Re: gethostbyname

In news:1155014578.317346.160010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
rpv30@xxxxxxxxxxx <rpv30@xxxxxxxxxxx> stated, which I commented on below:
Hi

We have a Windows 2003 server where an application program gets the
host name using the gethostbyname() API. This was returning the FQDN
in

all lowercase, but now it has started returning the hostname in all
uppercase. What could be the issue here? We are facing problems here
since we try to insert this data into a case sensitive DB.

The server is in a domain. It used to return server.domain.com but now
it returns SERVER.domain.com

Regards
Prasanna Venkatesh R

Actually DNS is not case sensitive, but if the records were entered as
uppercase, then these queried records will return as uppercase. Check the
actual records. If the workstations' or servers' hostnames are uppercase,
they will register into DNS as such.

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Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
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