how to know which ip is binded to the specific port using a c/linux program?

Friends,

I have a program which creates a tcp socket and binds on to the port 5819.

The expected behaviour is it needs to bind to 5819 using the provided ip.

Due to some malfunction ( which i need to trace ) after bind instead of provided ip it is taking some other ip.

when i do a netstat it shows me like below

tcp 0 0 255.255.255.255:5819 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN


Do i have any system call which i can use in my program where i can check like on this port which ip is being bind .

I thought i can use netstat like executing with system command and then output to a textfile . Now parse the text file to know the result . But it is very expensive as lot of file opertaion and then parsing .

So Any system call or any function through which i can get that info ?

I hope iam making some sense if not please let me know to explain with more workds.

regards

Originally Posted by vlrk

Friends,

I have a program which creates a tcp socket and binds on to the port 5819.

The expected behaviour is it needs to bind to 5819 using the provided ip.

Due to some malfunction ( which i need to trace ) after bind instead of provided ip it is taking some other ip.

This only takes at most half a dozen lines of code, so why don't you post the part that includes socket(), bind(), and the relevant struct declarations? And explain how you believe you are assigning an ip address in this process.

Code:

        /* setup address info for our server socket */
		bzero((char *)&addrServer, lenSockAddr);
		addrServer.sin_family = AF_INET;
        addrServer.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(UPNP_SERVER_IP);
        addrServer.sin_port = htons(UPNP_SERVER_PORT);
        /* create our socket */
         if ( UPNP_HTTP_NO_SOCKET == serverSocket )
         {
             serverSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
         }

if ( -1 == serverSocket) 
{
syslog(LOG_ERROR, "Could not create server socket");
continue;
}

        if(setsockopt(serverSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR,(char *)&iAddrReuse, sizeof(iAddrReuse)) == (-1))
        {
          syslog(LOG_ERR, "Setsockopt failed for SO_REUSEADDR \n");
        }

	/* bind address to our socket */
        if ( bindretVal == UPNP_HTTP_BIND_ERROR  )
          {
              bindretVal = bind(serverSocket, (struct sockaddr *)&addrServer, lenSockAddr);
          }

here while running i tried to print the ip address structure using inet_ntoa both before and after bind it shows me as the ip which i provided .

But when i run the netstat command it shows me a other ip as 255.255.255.255

regards

I don't see anything wrong, but I can't claim to be much of an authority. This works for me:

Code:

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>

#define IP ((in_addr_t) 0x0a000002)

int main() {
	struct sockaddr_in Addr;
	int sock=socket(PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
	Addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
	Addr.sin_port = htons(5819);
	Addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(IP);
	if (bind(sock,(struct sockaddr*)&Addr,sizeof(Addr))<0) puts("NOPE");
	getchar();         /* a pause so we can check netstat */
	return 0;
}

However, if I use anything but 10.0.0.2 (my real address) for IP, bind fails.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but are you actually sure that UPNP_SERVER_IP isn't 255.255.255.255 ?

It seems... well, really weird, to have an IP address hardcoded like that, unless it happened to be 255.255.255.255.

Code:

addrServer.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(UPNP_SERVER_IP);

inet_addr() returns the address in the host encoding, converting the result with htonl() may help.

yeah, you need to convert from little endian byte order to a network byte order by using htonl().

Code:

addrServer.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);