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%% This record is returned by inet:gethostbyaddr/2 and inet:gethostbyname/2.
-type hostname() :: atom() | string().
-type ip4_address() :: {0..255,0..255,0..255,0..255}.
-type ip6_address() :: {0..65535,0..65535,0..65535,0..65535,
0..65535,0..65535,0..65535,0..65535}.
-type ip_address() :: ip4_address() | ip6_address().
-type ip_port() :: 0..65535.
-record(hostent,
{
h_name :: hostname(), %% offical name of host
h_aliases = [] :: [hostname()], %% alias list
h_addrtype :: 'inet' | 'inet6', %% host address type
h_length :: non_neg_integer(), %% length of address
h_addr_list = [] :: [ip_address()] %% list of addresses from name server
}).
