diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index f1a071360..6bb47deda 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-01-10  Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* net.cc (cygwin_gethostname): Fix call to wsock function gethostname.
+
 2003-01-09  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
 
 	* cygthread.cc (cygthread::cygthread): Be more noisy about odd
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/net.cc b/winsup/cygwin/net.cc
index b775fb9a7..b558ad78b 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/net.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/net.cc
@@ -891,14 +891,12 @@ cygwin_getservbyport (int port, const char *proto)
 extern "C" int
 cygwin_gethostname (char *name, size_t len)
 {
-  int PASCAL win32_gethostname (char *, int);
-
   sig_dispatch_pending (0);
   sigframe thisframe (mainthread);
   if (__check_null_invalid_struct_errno (name, len))
     return -1;
 
-  if (wsock32_handle == NULL || win32_gethostname (name, len) == SOCKET_ERROR)
+  if (gethostname (name, len) == SOCKET_ERROR)
     {
       DWORD local_len = len;