How to retrieve FQDN of the current host on Win32?

Question

What's an easiest reliable way to retrieve the fully qualified domain name of the current host in Win32?

I've tried calling gethostname(), but it returns a NetBIOS name.

possible dupe: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/262425/translating-netbios-domain-into-a-fqdn-fully-qualified-domain-name — Shay Erlichmen, Oct 12 '09 at 11:42
The answer there is not very useful - it references no code snippets with Win32 primitives at all. — sharptooth, Oct 12 '09 at 11:44
and here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804700/does-anyone-know-a-way-to-get-the-fqdn-of-local-machine-in-c — Shay Erlichmen, Oct 12 '09 at 11:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '09 at 11:55

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Try getnameinfo, it comes with a sample that worked for me.

answered Oct 12 '09 at 11:55

Shay Erlichmen

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