Appart from being able to use IPv6 ofcourse  I forgot to mention this




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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. 
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2012/9/12 James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com>
Jambo skunks!

Is there any clear cut advantage in using "inet_pton()over assigning an IP address to "sockaddr_in.sin_addr.s_addr"

Yaani:-
inet_pton(AF_INET,host.c_str(),&m_addr.sin_addr);  VS.   sockaddr_in.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(host.c_str());



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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. 
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