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getnameinfo(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual getnameinfo(3)
NAME
getnameinfo - address-to-name translation in protocol-independent manner
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int getnameinfo(const struct sockaddr *sa, socklen_t salen,
char *host, size_t hostlen,
char *serv, size_t servlen, int flags);
DESCRIPTION
The getnameinfo(3) function is defined for protocol-independent address-to-nodename
translation. It combines the functionality of gethostbyaddr(3) and getservby-
port(3) and is the inverse of getaddrinfo(3). The sa argument is a pointer to a
generic socket address structure (of type sockaddr_in or sockaddr_in6) of size
salen that holds the input IP address and port number. The arguments host and serv
are pointers to buffers (of size hostlen and servlen respectively) to hold the
return values.
The caller can specify that no hostname (or no service name) is required by provid-
ing a NULL host (or serv) argument or a zero hostlen (or servlen) parameter. How-
ever, at least one of hostname or service name must be requested.
The flags argument modifies the behaviour of getnameinfo(3) as follows:
NI_NOFQDN
If set, return only the hostname part of the FQDN for local hosts.
NI_NUMERICHOST
If set, then the numeric form of the hostname is returned. (When not set,
this will still happen in case the node's name cannot be looked up.)
NI_NAMEREQD
If set, then a error is returned if the hostname cannot be looked up.
NI_NUMERICSERV
If set, then the service address is returned in numeric form, for example by
its port number.
NI_DGRAM
If set, then the service is datagram (UDP) based rather than stream (TCP)
based. This is required for the few ports (512-514) that have different ser-
vices for UDP and TCP.
RETURN VALUE
On success 0 is returned, and node and service names, if requested, are filled with
null-terminated strings, possibly truncated to fit the specified buffer lengths.
On error one of the following non-zero error codes is returned:
EAI_AGAIN
The name could not be resolved at this time. Try again later.
EAI_BADFLAGS
The flags parameter has an invalid value.
EAI_FAIL
A non-recoverable error occurred.
EAI_FAMILY
The address family was not recognized, or the address length was invalid for
the specified family.
EAI_MEMORY
Out of memory.
EAI_NONAME
The name does not resolve for the supplied parameters. NI_NAMEREQD is set
and the host's name cannot be located, or neither hostname nor service name
were requested.
EAI_OVERFLOW
The buffer pointed to by host or serv was too small.
EAI_SYSTEM
A system error occurred. The error code can be found in errno.
The gai_strerror(3) function translates these error codes to a human readable
string, suitable for error reporting.
FILES
/etc/hosts
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/resolv.conf
NOTE
In order to assist the programmer in choosing reasonable sizes for the supplied
buffers, <netdb.h> defines the constants
# define NI_MAXHOST 1025
# define NI_MAXSERV 32
The former is the constant MAXDNAME in recent versions of BIND's <arpa/nameser.h>
header file. The latter is a guess based on the services listed in the current
Assigned Numbers RFC.
EXAMPLE
The following code tries to get the numeric hostname and service name, for a given
socket address. Note 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) == 0)
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))
printf("could not resolve hostname");
else
printf("host=%s\n", hbuf);
CONFORMING TO
RFC 2553, POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO
getaddrinfo(3), gethostbyaddr(3), getservbyname(3), getservbyport(3), inet_ntop(3),
socket(3), hosts(5), services(5), hostname(7), named(8)
R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound and W. Stevens, Basic Socket Interface Extensions
for IPv6, RFC 2553, March 1999.
Tatsuya Jinmei and Atsushi Onoe, An Extension of Format for IPv6 Scoped Addresses,
internet draft, work in progress. ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-
ipngwg-scopedaddr-format-02.txt
Craig Metz, Protocol Independence Using the Sockets API, Proceedings of the freenix
track: 2000 USENIX annual technical conference, June 2000.
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/metzpro-
tocol.html
Linux Man Page 2000-12-11 getnameinfo(3)
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