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libdnet
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This is a fork of the original libdnet (https://github.com/dugsong/libdnet), since the
previous author doesn't respon to issues and pull requests.
We're currently trying to get this in shape (again), address the issues and pull requests,
available in the original Github repo and eventually will rename this repo (opinions?).

libdnet provides a simplified, portable interface to several low-level
networking routines, including network address manipulation, kernel
arp(4) cache and route(4) table lookup and manipulation, network
firewalling, network interface lookup and manipulation, IP tunnelling,
and raw IP packet and Ethernet frame transmission.

WWW: https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet
This is a fork of https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet to address an open issue with addr_pton()
calling gethostbyname(). This fork just removes the handling of host names as the first
argument to addr_pton() since it can't do the right thing in a dual-stack world (there is
no right thing to do; does the user want the AAAA record or the A record? If there is
more than one record (even if the same type), which one do we want to use? etc.
Basically, keep any resolver calls out of addr.c.

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