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authoritojun <itojun@FreeBSD.org>2000-07-05 08:27:50 +0000
committeritojun <itojun@FreeBSD.org>2000-07-05 08:27:50 +0000
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sync with more recent kame tree.
- correct scoped notation separator (s/@/%/) - include example and more references
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diff --git a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3 b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
index 84b98cb..0b47857 100644
--- a/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
+++ b/lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.3
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\" $KAME: getnameinfo.3,v 1.16 2000/07/05 08:22:04 itojun Exp $
+.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -30,8 +33,6 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" From: @(#)gethostbyname.3 8.4 (Berkeley) 5/25/95
-.\" $Id: getnameinfo.3,v 1.2 1999/10/07 04:46:27 itojun Exp $
-.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd May 25, 1995
.Dt GETNAMEINFO 3
@@ -48,7 +49,8 @@
.Fd #include <sys/socket.h>
.Fd #include <netdb.h>
.Ft int
-.Fn getnameinfo "const struct sockaddr *sa" "socklen_t salen" "char *host" "size_t hostlen" "char *serv" "size_t servlen" "int flags"
+.Fn getnameinfo "const struct sockaddr *sa" "socklen_t salen" \
+"char *host" "size_t hostlen" "char *serv" "size_t servlen" "int flags"
.\"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
@@ -70,16 +72,16 @@ a non-zero return value indicates failure.
The first argument,
.Fa sa ,
points to either a
-.Fa sockaddr_in
+.Li sockaddr_in
structure (for IPv4) or a
-.Fa sockaddr_in6
+.Li 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
+.Li sockaddr_in
or
-.Fa sockaddr_in6
+.Li sockaddr_in6
structure.
.Pp
The function returns the nodename associated with the IP address in
@@ -102,22 +104,22 @@ 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.
+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 <netdb.h> :
+.Aq Pa netdb.h :
.Bd -literal -offset
-#define NI_MAXHOST 1025
-#define NI_MAXSERV 32
+#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 <arpa/nameser.h>
+.Aq Pa arpa/nameser.h
header
.Po
older versions of BIND define this constant to be 256
@@ -160,27 +162,30 @@ instead of its name.
The two
.Dv NI_NUMERICxxx
flags are required to support the
-.Li "-n"
+.Fl 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".
+to be called with a second argument of
+.Dq udp
+instead of its default of
+.Dq 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 <netdb.h> .
+.Aq Pa netdb.h .
.\"
.Sh EXTENSION
The implementation allows experimental numeric IPv6 address notation with
scope identifier.
IPv6 link-local address will appear as string like
-.Dq Li fe80::1@ne0 ,
+.Dq Li fe80::1%ne0 ,
if
.Dv NI_WITHSCOPEID
bit is enabled in
@@ -190,6 +195,35 @@ Refer to
.Xr getaddrinfo 3
for the notation.
.\"
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+The following code tries to get numeric hostname, and service name,
+for given socket address.
+Observe that there is no hardcoded reference to particular address family.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+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);
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The following version checks if the socket address has reverse address mapping.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+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);
+.Ed
+.\"
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/resolv.conf -compact
.It Pa /etc/hosts
@@ -200,6 +234,29 @@ for the notation.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The function indicates successful completion by a zero return value;
a non-zero return value indicates failure.
+Error codes are as below:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EAI_AGAIN
+The name could not be resolved at this time.
+Future attempts may succeed.
+.It Bq Er EAI_BADFLAGS
+The flags had an invalid value.
+.It Bq Er EAI_FAIL
+A non-recoverable error occurred.
+.It Bq Er EAI_FAMILY
+The address family was not recognized or the address length was invalid
+for the specified family.
+.It Bq Er EAI_MEMORY
+There was a memory allocation failure.
+.It Bq Er EAI_NONAME
+The name does not resolve for the supplied parameters.
+.Dv NI_NAMEREQD
+is set and the host's name cannot be located,
+or both nodename and servname were null.
+.It Bq Er EAI_SYSTEM
+A system error occurred.
+The error code can be found in errno.
+.El
.\"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getaddrinfo 3 ,
@@ -219,6 +276,20 @@ a non-zero return value indicates failure.
.%R RFC2553
.%D March 1999
.Re
+.Rs
+.%A Tatsuya Jinmei
+.%A Atsushi Onoe
+.%T "An Extension of Format for IPv6 Scoped Addresses"
+.%R internet draft
+.%N draft-ietf-ipngwg-scopedaddr-format-02.txt
+.%O work in progress material
+.Re
+.Rs
+.%A Craig Metz
+.%T Protocol Independence Using the Sockets API
+.%B "Proceedings of the freenix track: 2000 USENIX annual technical conference"
+.%D June 2000
+.Re
.\"
.Sh HISTORY
The implementation first appeared in WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack kit.
@@ -227,8 +298,14 @@ The implementation first appeared in WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack kit.
The
.Fn getaddrinfo
function is defined IEEE POSIX 1003.1g draft specification,
-and documented in ``Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6''
-.Pq RFC2533 .
+and documented in
+.Dq Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
+.Pq RFC2553 .
.\"
.Sh BUGS
The text was shamelessly copied from RFC2553.
+.Pp
+The type of the 2nd argument should be
+.Li socklen_t
+for RFC2553 conformance.
+The current code is based on pre-RFC2553 specification.
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