Discussion: Why is inet_addr in IO?

[Thomas DuBuisson]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or, as previously noted, go straight to getaddrinfo and friends, which have
> sensible interfaces *and* support more than IPv4.

I fully support directing users to getAddrInfo.  My comment boils down
to: let's remove broken functions instead of making them easier to use
and less consistent with the rest of the API.