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getaddrinfo(3) Linux Programmer's Manual getaddrinfo(3)
NAME
getaddrinfo, freeaddrinfo, gai_strerror - network address and service translation
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int getaddrinfo(const char *node, const char *service,
const struct addrinfo *hints,
struct addrinfo **res);
void freeaddrinfo(struct addrinfo *res);
const char *gai_strerror(int errcode);
DESCRIPTION
The getaddrinfo(3) function combines the functionality provided by the getipnodeby-
name(3), getipnodebyaddr(3), getservbyname(3), and getservbyport(3) functions into
a single interface. The thread-safe getaddrinfo(3) function creates one or more
socket address structures that can be used by the bind(2) and connect(2) system
calls to create a client or a server socket.
The getaddrinfo(3) function is not limited to creating IPv4 socket address struc-
tures; IPv6 socket address structures can be created if IPv6 support is available.
These socket address structures can be used directly by bind(2) or connect(2), to
prepare a client or a server socket.
The addrinfo structure used by this function contains the following members:
struct addrinfo {
int ai_flags;
int ai_family;
int ai_socktype;
int ai_protocol;
size_t ai_addrlen;
struct sockaddr *ai_addr;
char *ai_canonname;
struct addrinfo *ai_next;
};
getaddrinfo(3) sets res to point to a dynamically-allocated linked list of addrinfo
structures, linked by the ai_next member. There are several reasons why the linked
list may have more than one addrinfo structure, including: if the network host is
multi-homed; or if the same service is available from multiple socket protocols
(one SOCK_STREAM address and another SOCK_DGRAM address, for example).
The members ai_family, ai_socktype, and ai_protocol have the same meaning as the
corresponding parameters in the socket(2) system call. The getaddrinfo(3) function
returns socket addresses in either IPv4 or IPv6 address family, (ai_family will be
set to either AF_INET or AF_INET6).
The hints parameter specifies the preferred socket type, or protocol. A NULL hints
specifies that any network address or protocol is acceptable. If this parameter is
not NULL it points to an addrinfo structure whose ai_family, ai_socktype, and
ai_protocol members specify the preferred socket type. AF_UNSPEC in ai_family
specifies any protocol family (either IPv4 or IPv6, for example). 0 in ai_socktype
or ai_protocol specifies that any socket type or protocol is acceptable as well.
The ai_flags member specifies additional options, defined below. Multiple flags
are specified by logically OR-ing them together. All the other members in the
hints parameter must contain either 0, or a null pointer.
The node or service parameter, but not both, may be NULL. node specifies either a
numerical network address (dotted-decimal format for IPv4, hexadecimal format for
IPv6) or a network hostname, whose network addresses are looked up and resolved.
If hints.ai_flags contains the AI_NUMERICHOST flag then the node parameter must be
a numerical network address. The AI_NUMERICHOST flag suppresses any potentially
lengthy network host address lookups.
The getaddrinfo(3) function creates a linked list of addrinfo structures, one for
each network address subject to any restrictions imposed by the hints parameter.
The ai_canonname field of the first of these addrinfo structures is set to point to
the official name of the host, if hints.ai_flags includes the AI_CANONNAME flag.
ai_family, ai_socktype, and ai_protocol specify the socket creation parameters. A
pointer to the socket address is placed in the ai_addr member, and the length of
the socket address, in bytes, is placed in the ai_addrlen member.
If node is NULL, the network address in each socket structure is initialized
according to the AI_PASSIVE flag, which is set in hints.ai_flags. The network
address in each socket structure will be left unspecified if AI_PASSIVE flag is
set. This is used by server applications, which intend to accept client connec-
tions on any network address. The network address will be set to the loopback
interface address if the AI_PASSIVE flag is not set. This is used by client appli-
cations, which intend to connect to a server running on the same network host.
If hints.ai_flags includes the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag, then IPv4 addresses are returned
in the list pointed to by result only if the local system has at least one IPv4
address configured, and IPv6 addresses are only returned if the local system has at
least one IPv6 address configured.
If hint.ai_flags specifies the AI_V4MAPPED flag, and hints.ai_family was specified
as AF_INET6, and no matching IPv6 addresses could be found, then return IPv4-mapped
IPv6 addresses in the list pointed to by result. If both AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL
are specified in hints.ai_family, then return both IPv6 and IPv4-mapped IPv6
addresses in the list pointed to by result. AI_ALL is ignored if AI_V4MAPPED is
not also specified.
service sets the port number in the network address of each socket structure. If
service is NULL the port number will be left uninitialized. If AI_NUMERICSERV is
specified in hints.ai_flags and service is not NULL, then service must point to a
string containing a numeric port number. This flag is used to inhibit the invoca-
tion of a name resolution service in cases where it is known not to be required.
The freeaddrinfo(3) function frees the memory that was allocated for the dynami-
cally allocated linked list res.
RETURN VALUE
getaddrinfo(3) returns 0 if it succeeds, or one of the following non-zero error
codes:
EAI_ADDRFAMILY
The specified network host does not have any network addresses in the
requested address family.
EAI_AGAIN
The name server returned a temporary failure indication. Try again later.
EAI_BADFLAGS
ai_flags contains invalid flags.
EAI_FAIL
The name server returned a permanent failure indication.
EAI_FAMILY
The requested address family is not supported at all.
EAI_MEMORY
Out of memory.
EAI_NODATA
The specified network host exists, but does not have any network addresses
defined.
EAI_NONAME
The node or service is not known; or both node and service are NULL; or
AI_NUMERICSERV was specified in hints.ai_flags and service was not a numeric
port-number string.
EAI_SERVICE
The requested service is not available for the requested socket type. It
may be available through another socket type.
EAI_SOCKTYPE
The requested socket type is not supported at all.
EAI_SYSTEM
Other system error, check errno for details.
The gai_strerror(3) function translates these error codes to a human readable
string, suitable for error reporting.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001. The getaddrinfo() function is documented in RFC 2553.
NOTES
AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_ALL, and AI_V4MAPPED are available since glibc 2.3.3. AI_NUMER-
ICSERV is available since glibc 2.3.4.
SEE ALSO
getipnodebyaddr(3), getipnodebyname(3)
Linux Man Page 2000-12-18 getaddrinfo(3)
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