diff --git a/android/console.c b/android/console.c
index 3a769c1..a8560f4 100644
--- a/android/console.c
+++ b/android/console.c
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
-    if (!inet_strtoip("10.0.2.15", &guest_ip)) {
+    if (inet_strtoip("10.0.2.15", &guest_ip) < 0) {
         control_write( client, "KO: unexpected internal failure when resolving 10.0.2.15\r\n" );
         return -1;
     }
diff --git a/sockets.c b/sockets.c
index 62c1ee3..fa1f39d 100644
--- a/sockets.c
+++ b/sockets.c
@@ -624,8 +624,29 @@
     memset(hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
     hints->ai_family   = preferIn6 ? AF_INET6 : AF_UNSPEC;
 
-    if (getaddrinfo(hostname, NULL, hints, &res) < 0) {
-        return _fix_errno();
+    ret = getaddrinfo(hostname, NULL, hints, &res);
+    if (ret != 0) {
+        int  err;
+
+        switch (ret) {
+        case EAI_AGAIN:  /* server is down */
+        case EAI_FAIL:   /* server is sick */
+            err = EHOSTDOWN;
+            break;
+
+        case EAI_NODATA:
+        case EAI_NONAME:
+            err = ENOENT;
+            break;
+
+        case EAI_MEMORY:
+            err = ENOMEM;
+            break;
+
+        default:
+            err = EINVAL;
+        }
+        return _set_errno(err);
     }
 
     ret = sock_address_from_bsd( a, res->ai_addr, res->ai_addrlen );
diff --git a/sockets.h b/sockets.h
index 274cf32..0dd06e2 100644
--- a/sockets.h
+++ b/sockets.h
@@ -228,8 +228,18 @@
 char* bufprint_sock_address( char*  p, char*  end, const SockAddress*  a );
 
 /* resolve a hostname or decimal IPv4/IPv6 address into a socket address.
- * returns 0 on success, or -1 on failure */
-int   sock_address_init_resolve( SockAddress*  a, const char*  hostname, uint16_t  port, int  preferIn6 ); 
+ * returns 0 on success, or -1 on failure. Note that the values or errno
+ * set by this function are the following:
+ *
+ *   EINVAL    : invalid argument
+ *   EHOSTDOWN : could not reach DNS server
+ *   ENOENT    : no host with this name, or host doesn't have any IP address
+ *   ENOMEM    : not enough memory to perform request
+ */
+int   sock_address_init_resolve( SockAddress*  a,
+                                 const char*   hostname,
+                                 uint16_t      port,
+                                 int           preferIn6 );
 
 /* create a new socket, return the socket number of -1 on failure */
 int  socket_create( SocketFamily  family, SocketType  type );