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author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-12-20 22:20:44 +0000 |
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committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-12-20 22:20:44 +0000 |
commit | 6892eb56f228cc76d4ab061637bc4e42a640e7c6 (patch) | |
tree | 3cb7935c5a827f05fbe36f9e05fd2ef49f7b01b3 /lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 | |
parent | dc648ddf57775e3aaca6bbef735474a821d218e9 (diff) |
Add back EXAMPLE section and scopeid info which are from KAME, not the
RFC text.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 | 39 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 index f9ada350cde..2dfe60ad59e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 +++ b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getnameinfo.3,v 1.30 2004/12/20 22:15:29 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: getnameinfo.3,v 1.31 2004/12/20 22:20:43 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (C) 2004 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") .\" Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Internet Software Consortium. @@ -110,11 +110,48 @@ for .Tn UDP and .Tn TCP . +.El +.Pp +This implementation allows experimental numeric IPv6 address notation with +scope identifier. +IPv6 link-local address will appear as a string like +.Dq Li fe80::1%ne0 . +Refer to +.Xr getaddrinfo 3 +for more information. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Fn getnameinfo returns zero on success or one of the error codes listed in .Xr gai_strerror 3 if an error occurs. +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following code tries to get a numeric host name, and service name, +for a given socket address. +Observe that there is no hardcoded reference to a particular address family. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +struct sockaddr *sa; /* input */ +char hbuf[NI_MAXHOST], sbuf[NI_MAXSERV]; + +if (getnameinfo(sa, sa->sa_len, hbuf, sizeof(hbuf), sbuf, + sizeof(sbuf), NI_NUMERICHOST | NI_NUMERICSERV)) { + errx(1, "could not get numeric hostname"); + /*NOTREACHED*/ +} +printf("host=%s, serv=%s\en", hbuf, sbuf); +.Ed +.Pp +The following version checks if the socket address has a reverse address mapping: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +struct sockaddr *sa; /* input */ +char hbuf[NI_MAXHOST]; + +if (getnameinfo(sa, sa->sa_len, hbuf, sizeof(hbuf), NULL, 0, + NI_NAMEREQD)) { + errx(1, "could not resolve hostname"); + /*NOTREACHED*/ +} +printf("host=%s\en", hbuf); +.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr inet_ntop 3 , .Xr gai_strerror 3 , |