diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e45f5f71e..bed3dd1cc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-10-01  Gary Houston  <ghouston@arglist.com>
+
+	* configure.in: check whether inet_aton is declared.
+	* acconfig.h: added MISSING_INET_ATON_DECL.
+
 2000-09-20  Keisuke Nishida  <kxn30@po.cwru.edu>
 
 	* libguile.h: #include "libguile/properties.h".
diff --git a/acconfig.h b/acconfig.h
index b7b42bc3d..eb23b076c 100644
--- a/acconfig.h
+++ b/acconfig.h
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@
 /* Define if the operating system supplies usleep without declaring it. */
 #undef MISSING_USLEEP_DECL
 
+/* Define if the operating system supplies inet_aton without declaring it. */
+#undef MISSING_INET_ATON_DECL
+
 /* Define if the system headers declare usleep to return void.  */
 #undef USLEEP_RETURNS_VOID
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 09e897dee..f0deb6ab9 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ GUILE_FUNC_DECLARED(strptime, time.h)
 GUILE_FUNC_DECLARED(bzero, string.h)
 GUILE_FUNC_DECLARED(sleep, unistd.h)
 GUILE_FUNC_DECLARED(usleep, unistd.h)
+GUILE_FUNC_DECLARED(inet_aton, arpa/inet.h)
 
 ### On some systems usleep has no return value.  If it does have one,
 ### we'd like to return it; otherwise, we'll fake it.