gethostname function always returns nullptr

Question

I am attempting to resolve a hostname in C in windows. No matter what I enter in as the address it always returns a nullptr. I have tried the same function in a python interpreter and it works fine, so there is nothing wrong outside of this function that would cause it to be unable to resolve a DNS. Even "localhost" fails aswell. Attempting to access anything in the host variables causes a crash.

    struct hostent* host = gethostbyname("google.com");

    if (host) {
        printf("Yes\n");
    }
    else {
        printf("No\n"); // Always gets here
    }