From c5481dce6d51dd46d489e7b5dbc2f25cb096426c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theo de Raadt Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:26:56 +0000 Subject: cleaner --- lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 | 199 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 199 insertions(+) create mode 100644 lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 (limited to 'lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3') diff --git a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a1b3bdabb6d --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" From: @(#)gethostbyname.3 8.4 (Berkeley) 5/25/95 +.\" $Id: getnameinfo.3,v 1.1 1999/07/03 20:26:55 deraadt Exp $ +.\" +.Dd May 25, 1995 +.Dt GETNAMEINFO 3 +.Os KAME +.Sh NAME +.Nm getnameinfo +.Nd address-to-nodename translation in protocol-independent manner +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include +.Fd #include +.Ft int +.Fn getnameinfo "const struct sockaddr *sa" "socklen_t salen" \ +"char *host" "size_t hostlen" "char *serv" "size_t servlen" "int flags" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn getnameinfo +function is defined for protocol-independent address-to-nodename translation. +Its functionality is a reverse conversion of +.Xr getaddrinfo 3 , +and implements similar functionality with +.Xr gethostbyaddr 3 and +.Xr getservbyport 3 +in more sophisticated manner. +.Pp +This function looks up an IP address and port number provided by the +caller in the DNS and system-specific database, and returns text +strings for both in buffers provided by the caller. +The function indicates successful completion by a zero return value; +a non-zero return value indicates failure. +.Pp +The first argument, +.Fa sa , +points to either a +.Fa sockaddr_in +structure (for IPv4) or a +.Fa sockaddr_in6 +structure (for IPv6) that holds the IP address and port number. +The +.Fa salen +argument gives the length of the +.Fa sockaddr_in +or +.Fa sockaddr_in6 +structure. +.Pp +The function returns the nodename associated with the IP address in +the buffer pointed to by the +.Fa host +argument. +The caller provides the size of this buffer via the +.Fa hostlen +argument. +The service name associated with the port number is returned in the buffer +pointed to by +.Fa serv , +and the +.Fa servlen +argument gives the length of this buffer. +The caller specifies not to return either string by providing a zero +value for the +.Fa hostlen +or +.Fa servlen +arguments. +Otherwise, the caller must provide buffers large enough to hold the +nodename and the service name, including the terminating null characters. +.Pp +Unfortunately most systems do not provide constants that specify the +maximum size of either a fully-qualified domain name or a service name. +Therefore to aid the application in allocating buffers for these two +returned strings the following constants are defined in +.Li : +.Bd -literal -offset +#define NI_MAXHOST 1025 +#define NI_MAXSERV 32 +.Ed +.Pp +The first value is actually defined as the constant +.Dv MAXDNAME +in recent versions of BIND's +.Li +header +.Po +older versions of BIND define this constant to be 256 +.Pc +and the second is a guess based on the services listed in the current +Assigned Numbers RFC. +.Pp +The final argument is a +.Fa flag +that changes the default actions of this function. +By default the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for the host is +looked up in the DNS and returned. +If the flag bit +.Dv NI_NOFQDN +is set, only the nodename portion of the FQDN is returned for local hosts. +.Pp +If the +.Fa flag +bit +.Dv NI_NUMERICHOST +is set, or if the host's name cannot be located in the DNS, +the numeric form of the host's address is returned instead of its name +.Po +e.g., by calling +.Fn inet_ntop +instead of +.Fn getnodebyaddr +.Pc . +If the +.Fa flag +bit +.Dv NI_NAMEREQD +is set, an error is returned if the host's name cannot be located in the DNS. +.Pp +If the flag bit +.Dv NI_NUMERICSERV +is set, the numeric form of the service address is returned +.Pq e.g., its port number +instead of its name. +The two +.Dv NI_NUMERICxxx +flags are required to support the +.Li "-n" +flag that many commands provide. +.Pp +A fifth flag bit, +.Dv NI_DGRAM , +specifies that the service is a datagram service, and causes +.Fn getservbyport +to be called with a second argument of "udp" instead of its default of "tcp". +This is required for the few ports (512-514) +that have different services for UDP and TCP. +.Pp +These +.Dv NI_xxx +flags are defined in +.Li . +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /etc/resolv.conf -compact +.It Pa /etc/hosts +.It Pa /etc/host.conf +.It Pa /etc/resolv.conf +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +The function indicates successful completion by a zero return value; +a non-zero return value indicates failure. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr getaddrinfo 3 , +.Xr gethostbyaddr 3 , +.Xr getservbyport 3 , +.Xr hosts 5 , +.Xr services 5 , +.Xr hostname 7 , +.Xr named 8 +.Pp +R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, and W. Stevens, +``Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6,'' RFC2553, March 1999. +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn getaddrinfo +function is defined IEEE POSIX 1003.1g draft specification, +and documented in ``Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6'' +.Pq RFC2533 . +.Sh BUGS +The text was shamelessly copied from RFC2553. -- cgit v1.2.3