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GETADDRINFO(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETADDRINFO(3)
NAME
getaddrinfo, freeaddrinfo -- socket address structure to host and service
name
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int
getaddrinfo(const char *hostname, const char *servname,
const struct addrinfo *hints, struct addrinfo **res);
void
freeaddrinfo(struct addrinfo *ai);
DESCRIPTION
The getaddrinfo() function is used to get a list of IP addresses and port
numbers for host hostname and service servname. It is a replacement for
and provides more flexibility than the gethostbyname(3) and
getservbyname(3) functions.
The hostname and servname arguments are either pointers to NUL-terminated
strings or the null pointer. An acceptable value for hostname is either
a valid host name or a numeric host address string consisting of a dotted
decimal IPv4 address or an IPv6 address. The servname is either a deci-
mal port number or a service name listed in services(5). At least one of
hostname and servname must be non-null.
hints is an optional pointer to a struct addrinfo, as defined by
<netdb.h>:
struct addrinfo {
int ai_flags; /* input flags */
int ai_family; /* protocol family for socket */
int ai_socktype; /* socket type */
int ai_protocol; /* protocol for socket */
socklen_t ai_addrlen; /* length of socket-address */
struct sockaddr *ai_addr; /* socket-address for socket */
char *ai_canonname; /* canonical name for service location */
struct addrinfo *ai_next; /* pointer to next in list */
};
This structure can be used to provide hints concerning the type of socket
that the caller supports or wishes to use. The caller can supply the
following structure elements in hints:
ai_family The protocol family that should be used. When ai_family
is set to PF_UNSPEC, it means the caller will accept any
protocol family supported by the operating system.
ai_socktype Denotes the type of socket that is wanted: SOCK_STREAM,
SOCK_DGRAM, or SOCK_RAW. When ai_socktype is zero the
caller will accept any socket type.
ai_protocol Indicates which transport protocol is desired, IPPROTO_UDP
or IPPROTO_TCP. If ai_protocol is zero the caller will
accept any protocol.
ai_flags The ai_flags field to which the hints parameter points
shall be set to zero or be the bitwise-inclusive OR of one
or more of the values AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_ALL, AI_CANONNAME,
AI_NUMERICHOST, AI_NUMERICSERV, AI_PASSIVE, AI_V4MAPPED,
AI_V4MAPPED_CFG, and AI_DEFAULT.
AI_ADDRCONFIG If the AI_ADDRCONFIG bit is set, IPv4
addresses shall be returned only if an
IPv4 address is configured on the local
system, and IPv6 addresses shall be
returned only if an IPv6 address is con-
figured on the local system.
AI_ALL If the AI_ALL bit is set with the
AI_V4MAPPED bit, then getaddrinfo() shall
return all matching IPv6 and IPv4
addresses. The AI_ALL bit without the
AI_V4MAPPED bit is ignored.
AI_CANONNAME If the AI_CANONNAME bit is set, a success-
ful call to getaddrinfo() will return a
NUL-terminated string containing the
canonical name of the specified hostname
in the ai_canonname element of the first
addrinfo structure returned.
AI_NUMERICHOST If the AI_NUMERICHOST bit is set, it indi-
cates that hostname should be treated as a
numeric string defining an IPv4 or IPv6
address and no name resolution should be
attempted.
AI_NUMERICSERV If the AI_NUMERICSERV bit is set, then a
non-null servname string supplied shall be
a numeric port string. Otherwise, an
EAI_NONAME error shall be returned. This
bit shall prevent any type of name resolu-
tion service (for example, NIS+) from
being invoked.
AI_PASSIVE If the AI_PASSIVE bit is set it indicates
that the returned socket address structure
is intended for use in a call to bind(2).
In this case, if the hostname argument is
the null pointer, then the IP address por-
tion of the socket address structure will
be set to INADDR_ANY for an IPv4 address
or IN6ADDR_ANY_INIT for an IPv6 address.
If the AI_PASSIVE bit is not set, the
returned socket address structure will be
ready for use in a call to connect(2) for
a connection-oriented protocol or
connect(2), sendto(2), or sendmsg(2) if a
connectionless protocol was chosen. The
IP address portion of the socket address
structure will be set to the loopback
address if hostname is the null pointer
and AI_PASSIVE is not set.
AI_V4MAPPED If the AI_V4MAPPED flag is specified along
with an ai_family of PF_INET6, then
getaddrinfo() shall return IPv4-mapped
IPv6 addresses on finding no matching IPv6
addresses ( ai_addrlen shall be 16). The
AI_V4MAPPED flag shall be ignored unless
ai_family equals PF_INET6.
AI_V4MAPPED_CFG
The AI_V4MAPPED_CFG flag behaves exactly
like the AI_V4MAPPED flag if the kernel
supports IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses. Oth-
erwise it is ignored.
AI_DEFAULT AI_DEFAULT is defined as ( AI_V4MAPPED_CFG
| AI_ADDRCONFIG ).
AI_UNUSABLE To override the automatic AI_DEFAULT
behavior that occurs when ai_flags is zero
pass AI_UNUSABLE instead of zero. This
suppresses the implicit setting of
AI_V4MAPPED_CFG and AI_ADDRCONFIG, thereby
causing unusable addresses to be included
in the results.
If ai_flags is zero, getaddrinfo() gives the AI_DEFAULT behavior (
AI_V4MAPPED_CFG | AI_ADDRCONFIG ). To override this default behavior,
pass any nonzero value for ai_flags, by setting any desired flag values,
or setting AI_UNUSABLE if no other flags are desired.
All other elements of the addrinfo structure passed via hints must be
zero or the null pointer.
If hints is the null pointer, getaddrinfo() behaves as if the caller pro-
vided a struct addrinfo with ai_family set to PF_UNSPEC and all other
elements set to zero or NULL (which includes treating the ai_flags field
as effectively zero, giving the automatic default AI_DEFAULT behavior).
After a successful call to getaddrinfo(), *res is a pointer to a linked
list of one or more addrinfo structures. The list can be traversed by
following the ai_next pointer in each addrinfo structure until a null
pointer is encountered. The three members ai_family, ai_socktype, and
ai_protocol in each returned addrinfo structure are suitable for a call
to socket(2). For each addrinfo structure in the list, the ai_addr mem-
ber points to a filled-in socket address structure of length ai_addrlen.
This implementation of getaddrinfo() allows numeric IPv6 address notation
with scope identifier, as documented in section 11 of RFC 4007. By
appending the percent character and scope identifier to addresses, one
can fill the sin6_scope_id field for addresses. This would make manage-
ment of scoped addresses easier and allows cut-and-paste input of scoped
addresses.
At this moment the code supports only link-local addresses with the for-
mat. The scope identifier is hardcoded to the name of the hardware
interface associated with the link (such as ne0). An example is
``fe80::1%ne0'', which means ``fe80::1 on the link associated with the
ne0 interface''.
The current implementation assumes a one-to-one relationship between the
interface and link, which is not necessarily true from the specification.
All of the information returned by getaddrinfo() is dynamically allo-
cated: the addrinfo structures themselves as well as the socket address
structures and the canonical host name strings included in the addrinfo
structures.
Memory allocated for the dynamically allocated structures created by a
successful call to getaddrinfo() is released by the freeaddrinfo() func-
tion. The ai pointer should be an addrinfo structure created by a call
to getaddrinfo().
The current implementation supports synthesis of NAT64 mapped IPv6
addresses. If hostname is a numeric string defining an IPv4 address (for
example, ``192.0.2.1'' ) and ai_family is set to PF_UNSPEC or PF_INET6,
getaddrinfo() will synthesize the appropriate IPv6 address(es) (for exam-
ple, ``64:ff9b::192.0.2.1'' ) if the current interface supports IPv6,
NAT64 and DNS64 and does not support IPv4. If the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag is
set, the IPv4 address will be suppressed on those interfaces. On non-
qualifying interfaces, getaddrinfo() is guaranteed to return immediately
without attempting any resolution, and will return the IPv4 address if
ai_family is PF_UNSPEC or PF_INET. NAT64 address synthesis can be dis-
abled by setting the AI_NUMERICHOST flag. To best support NAT64 networks,
it is recommended to resolve all IP address literals with ai_family set
to PF_UNSPEC and ai_flags set to AI_DEFAULT.
Note that NAT64 address synthesis is always disabled for IPv4 addresses
in the following ranges: 0.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16,
192.0.0.0/29, 192.88.99.0/24, 224.0.0.0/4, and 255.255.255.255/32. Addi-
tionally, NAT64 address synthesis is disabled when the network uses the
well-known prefix (64:ff9b::/96) for IPv4 addresses in the following
ranges: 10.0.0.0/8, 100.64.0.0/10, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16.
Historically, passing a host's own hostname to getaddrinfo() has been a
popular technique for determining that host's IP address(es), but this is
fragile, and doesn't work reliably in all cases. The appropriate way for
software to discover the IP address(es) of the host it is running on is
to use getifaddrs(3).
The getaddrinfo() implementations on all versions of OS X and iOS are
now, and always have been, thread-safe. Previous versions of this man
page incorrectly reported that getaddrinfo() was not thread-safe.
RETURN VALUES
getaddrinfo() returns zero on success or one of the error codes listed in
gai_strerror(3) if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The following code tries to connect to ``www.kame.net'' service ``http''
via a stream socket. It loops through all the addresses available,
regardless of address family. If the destination resolves to an IPv4
address, it will use an PF_INET socket. Similarly, if it resolves to
IPv6, an PF_INET6 socket is used. Observe that there is no hardcoded
reference to a particular address family. The code works even if
getaddrinfo() returns addresses that are not IPv4/v6.
struct addrinfo hints, *res, *res0;
int error;
int s;
const char *cause = NULL;
memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC;
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
error = getaddrinfo("www.kame.net", "http", &hints, &res0);
if (error) {
errx(1, "%s", gai_strerror(error));
/*NOTREACHED*/
}
s = -1;
for (res = res0; res; res = res->ai_next) {
s = socket(res->ai_family, res->ai_socktype,
res->ai_protocol);
if (s < 0) {
cause = "socket";
continue;
}
if (connect(s, res->ai_addr, res->ai_addrlen) < 0) {
cause = "connect";
close(s);
s = -1;
continue;
}
break; /* okay we got one */
}
if (s < 0) {
err(1, "%s", cause);
/*NOTREACHED*/
}
freeaddrinfo(res0);
The following example tries to open a wildcard listening socket onto ser-
vice ``http'', for all the address families available.
struct addrinfo hints, *res, *res0;
int error;
int s[MAXSOCK];
int nsock;
const char *cause = NULL;
memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC;
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;
error = getaddrinfo(NULL, "http", &hints, &res0);
if (error) {
errx(1, "%s", gai_strerror(error));
/*NOTREACHED*/
}
nsock = 0;
for (res = res0; res && nsock < MAXSOCK; res = res->ai_next) {
s[nsock] = socket(res->ai_family, res->ai_socktype,
res->ai_protocol);
if (s[nsock] < 0) {
cause = "socket";
continue;
}
if (bind(s[nsock], res->ai_addr, res->ai_addrlen) < 0) {
cause = "bind";
close(s[nsock]);
continue;
}
(void) listen(s[nsock], 5);
nsock++;
}
if (nsock == 0) {
err(1, "%s", cause);
/*NOTREACHED*/
}
freeaddrinfo(res0);
SEE ALSO
bind(2), connect(2), send(2), socket(2), gai_strerror(3),
gethostbyname(3), getnameinfo(3), getservbyname(3), resolver(3),
hosts(5), resolv.conf(5), services(5), hostname(7), named(8)
R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, J. McCann, and W. Stevens, Basic
Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6, RFC 3493, February 2003.
S. Deering, B. Haberman, T. Jinmei, E. Nordmark, and B. Zill, IPv6 Scoped
Address Architecture, RFC 4007, March 2005.
Craig Metz, "Protocol Independence Using the Sockets API", Proceedings of
the freenix track: 2000 USENIX annual technical conference, June 2000.
STANDARDS
The getaddrinfo() function is defined by the IEEE Std 1003.1-2004
(``POSIX.1'') specification and documented in RFC 3493, ``Basic Socket
Interface Extensions for IPv6''.
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