03-28-2008
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Originally Posted by
cleopard
There's a piece in a C program I'm writing (Linux) that simply needs to take a host name and return an IP address (e.g., take 'mail.gnu.org' and return 199.232.76.166). I've gotten a successful status from getaddrinfo, but don't see any of the fields in the result structure that has what I'm looking for, and similar for the structure returned by gethostbyname. I'm wondering if I need to use a function like 'inet_addr' on one of those values to get what I'm looking for. Thank you.
Post the C program because without the source it is not possible to figure out why the fields of the structure are not being filled. My guess would be that you have declared a pointer to that structure but not an object of that type. In any case it would be nice to see the code.
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gethostent
endhostent(3XNET) X/Open Networking Services Library Functions endhostent(3XNET)
NAME
endhostent, gethostbyaddr, gethostbyname, gethostent, sethostent - network host database functions
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lxnet [ library ... ]
#include <netdb.h>
extern int h_errno;
void endhostent(void)
struct hostent *gethostbyaddr(const void *addr, socklen_t len, int type);
struct hostent *gethostbyname(const char *name);
struct hostent *gethostent(void)
void sethostent(int stayopen);
DESCRIPTION
The gethostent(), gethostbyaddr(), and gethostbyname() functions each return a pointer to a hostent structure, the members of which contain
the fields of an entry in the network host database.
The gethostent() function reads the next entry of the database, opening a connection to the database if necessary.
The gethostbyaddr() function searches the database and finds an entry which matches the address family specified by the type argument and
which matches the address pointed to by the addr argument, opening a connection to the database if necessary. The addr argument is a
pointer to the binary-format (that is, not null-terminated) address in network byte order, whose length is specified by the len argument.
The datatype of the address depends on the address family. For an address of type AF_INET, this is an in_addr structure, defined in
<netinet/in.h>. For an address of type AF_INET6, there is an in6_addr structure defined in <netinet/in.h>.
The gethostbyname() function searches the database and finds an entry which matches the host name specified by the name argument, opening a
connection to the database if necessary. If name is an alias for a valid host name, the function returns information about the host name
to which the alias refers, and name is included in the list of aliases returned.
The sethostent() function opens a connection to the network host database, and sets the position of the next entry to the first entry. If
the stayopen argument is non-zero, the connection to the host database will not be closed after each call to gethostent() (either directly,
or indirectly through one of the other gethost*() functions).
The endhostent() function closes the connection to the database.
USAGE
The gethostent(), gethostbyaddr(), and gethostbyname() functions may return pointers to static data, which may be overwritten by subsequent
calls to any of these functions.
These functions are generally used with the Internet address family.
RETURN VALUES
On successful completion, gethostbyaddr(), gethostbyname() and gethostent() return a pointer to a hostent structure if the requested entry
was found, and a null pointer if the end of the database was reached or the requested entry was not found. Otherwise, a null pointer is
returned.
On unsuccessful completion, gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname() functions set h_errno to indicate the error.
ERRORS
No errors are defined for endhostent(), gethostent() and sethostent().
The gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname() functions will fail in the following cases, setting h_errno to the value shown in the list below.
Any changes to errno are unspecified.
HOST_NOT_FOUND No such host is known.
NO_DATA The server recognised the request and the name but no address is available. Another type of request to the name server
for the domain might return an answer.
NO_RECOVERY An unexpected server failure occurred which can not be recovered.
TRY_AGAIN A temporary and possibly transient error occurred, such as a failure of a server to respond.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
endservent(3XNET), htonl(3XNET), inet_addr(3XNET), attributes(5), standards(5)
SunOS 5.11 1 Nov 2003 endhostent(3XNET)