I doubt anyone needs inet_aton's flexibility^W impreciseness.

OK?

diff --git mount_nfs.c mount_nfs.c
index 1c2ecf8fbaa..0724936f0b3 100644
--- mount_nfs.c
+++ mount_nfs.c
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ int
 getnfsargs(char *spec, struct nfs_args *nfsargsp)
 {
 	CLIENT *clp;
-	struct hostent *hp;
+	struct addrinfo hints, *res;
 	static struct sockaddr_in saddr;
 	struct timeval pertry, try;
 	enum clnt_stat clnt_stat;
@@ -411,14 +411,15 @@ getnfsargs(char *spec, struct nfs_args *nfsargsp)
 	/*
 	 * Handle an internet host address
 	 */
-	if (inet_aton(hostp, &saddr.sin_addr) == 0) {
-		hp = gethostbyname(hostp);
-		if (hp == NULL) {
-			warnx("can't resolve address for host %s", hostp);
-			return (0);
-		}
-		memcpy(&saddr.sin_addr, hp->h_addr, hp->h_length);
+	memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
+	hints.ai_family = AF_INET;
+
+	if (getaddrinfo(hostp, NULL, &hints, &res) != 0) {
+		warnx("can't resolve address for host %s", hostp);
+		return (0);
 	}
+	saddr.sin_addr = ((struct sockaddr_in *)res->ai_addr)->sin_addr;
+	freeaddrinfo(res);
 
 	if (force2) {
 		nfsvers = NFS_VER2;

-- 
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