For the Wanda library, refer to the man pages gethostname(3) and gethostbyname(3). For the Unix library, man getmsnlhostname(3) and getmsnlhostbyname(3). Even though the current version of the name server gathers the required information by using the internal table and acting as a proxy to the trader and the DNS, the user of the name server library should not make any assumption on this.