When calling gethostbyname("64.85.65.229") it returns NULL. 64.85.65.229 is the IP of a game server to which I normally can connect without a problem. When using my self-made proxy however, I can connect to all servers except this one. "nslookup 64.85.65.229" gives me: "can't find 64.85.65.229: Non-existent domain". So does anyone know how to fix this problem? Where does the problem lie, at my ISP's DNS server or at my code?
What OS? What compiler? Please provide some sample code...
From the Winsock pages:
From the Linux pages:The gethostbyname function cannot resolve IP address strings passed to it. Such a request is treated exactly as if an unknown host name were passed. Use inet_addr to convert an IP address string the string to an actual IP address, then use another function, gethostbyaddr, to obtain the contents of the hostent structure.
The gethostbyname() function returns a structure of type hostent for the given host name. Here name is either a host name, or an IPv4 address in standard dot notation, or an IPv6 address in colon (and possibly dot) notation. (See RFC 1884 for the description of IPv6 addresses.) If name is an IPv4 or IPv6 address, no lookup is performed and gethostbyname() simply copies name into the h_name field and its struct in_addr equivalent into the h_addr_list[0] field of the returned hostent structure.
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I'm using Dev-C++ with gcc (GCC) 3.2 (mingw special 20020817-1) on windows 2k
This code for example returns NULL:
Could someone test to see wether you get the same result?Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <winsock2.h> int main() { WSADATA wsaData; WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,0),&wsaData); unsigned long ip = inet_addr("64.85.65.229"); struct hostent *host = gethostbyaddr((char *)&ip,4,0); if(host == NULL) printf("NULL\n"); else printf("Ok\n"); return 0; }
You are getting NULL because the lookup of the ip address you entered failed. If you entered a different ip address, it would probably work just fine. I hope you realize that the point of the gethostbyaddr() function is to do a reverse DNS lookup on an IP address.
What is it you are trying to do?
I need this code for my socks proxy server. The client sends the IP from the target host to my proxy. Let's say the IP is now stored in char ip[4]. What I've learned to do then is this:
Code:struct hostent *host; if((host = gethostbyaddr(ip,4,0)) == NULL) return 0; struct sockaddr_in remote; remote.sin_family = AF_INET; remote.sin_port = htons(80); remote.sin_addr.s_addr = *((struct in_addr *)host->h_addr); // connect and stuff
If something fails, then it's a good idea to print out an error message, like so:
>printf("error#:%ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
In your last post, you suggest that you are given an IP in binary format, you then reverse look it up, and use the IP from the reverse lookup result to populate the remote struct. Any reason you don't use use the original binary IP in the remote struct?
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Ah I get it now. I always used gethostbyaddr in the way shown above (that's the way I learned it somewhere), I didn't know that the sin_addr.s_addr field was simply the IP address. Thanks, got it working now!
