VMS Help TCPIP Services, Programming Interfaces, Sockets API, getnetbyname()  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Searches the networks database sequentially from the beginning
    for a network record with a given name or alias.
    The $QIO equivalent is the IO$_ACPCONTROL function with the
    INETACP_FUNC$C_GETNETBYNAME subfunction code.
    Format
      #include  <netdb.h>
      struct netent *getnetbyname  ( char *name );

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