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The sockaddr structure sa should point to either a sockaddr_in or sockaddr_in6 structure (for IPv4 or IPv6 respectively) that is salen bytes long.

The host and service names associated with sa are stored in host and serv which have length parameters hostlen and servlen. The maximum value for hostlen is NI_MAXHOST and the maximum value for servlen is NI_MAXSERV, as defined by <netdb.h>. If a length parameter is zero, no string will be stored. Otherwise, enough space must be provided to store the host name or service string plus a byte for the NUL terminator.

The flags argument is formed by OR ’ing the following values:

`NI_NOFQDN`	A fully qualified domain name is not required for local hosts. The local part of the fully qualified domain name is returned instead.
`NI_NUMERICHOST`	Return the address in numeric form, as if calling inet_ntop(3), instead of a host name.
`NI_NAMEREQD`	A name is required. If the host name cannot be found in DNS and this flag is set, a non-zero error code is returned. If the host name is not found and the flag is not set, the address is returned in numeric form.
NI_NUMERICSERV	The service name is returned as a digit string representing the port number.
NI_DGRAM	Specifies that the service being looked up is a datagram service, and causes getservbyport(3) 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.

This implementation allows numeric IPv6 address notation with scope identifier, as documented in chapter 11 of draft-ietf-ipv6-scoping-arch-02.txt. IPv6 link-local address will appear as a string like "fe80::1%ne0". Refer to getaddrinfo(3) for more information.

RETURN VALUES

getnameinfo 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 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.
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\n", hbuf, sbuf);

The following version checks if the socket address has a reverse address mapping:
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\n", hbuf);

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inet_ntop(3)),

Created by Blin Media, 2008-2013

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