[Xastir] failure to use gpsd

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> Not necessarily true.  There's no guarantee that we were smart
> enough to bypass the hostname lookup if there appears to be a valid
> IP address in the hostname field.  Yea, interface.c in net_init()
> does this every time:
>
>    (void)host_lookup(port_data[port].device_host_name,
>        ip_addrs,
>        sizeof(ip_addrs),
>        13);
>
> Sorry about thinking that Xastir would avoid the hostname lookup in
> that case.
>
> So...  We could smarten up the code there to test whether it looks
> like a valid IP address and bypass the host lookup.  I have other
> pressing matters to attend to though, like re-writing the GPSD
> interface code.
>
> If you (or anyone else) care to write a patch to do the above, send
> it along and I'll test it out/commit it.

It looks like running the hostname through inet_aton() would tell us
if it was a valid address.  Should be a simple patch but I'm not
going to look at it right now.  Anyone else?

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