1 /* Host name canonicalization
3 Copyright (C) 1995, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 Written by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
9 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
10 your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
13 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
15 General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
19 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
25 #include <sys/types.h>
35 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
36 # include <sys/socket.h>
39 #ifdef HAVE_NETINET_IN_H
40 # include <netinet/in.h>
42 #ifdef HAVE_ARPA_INET_H
43 # include <arpa/inet.h>
46 /* Returns the canonical hostname associated with HOST (allocated in a static
47 buffer), or 0 if it can't be determined. */
49 canon_host (const char *host
)
51 #ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME
52 struct hostent
*he
= gethostbyname (host
);
56 # ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR
59 /* Try and get an ascii version of the numeric host address. */
60 switch (he
->h_addrtype
)
62 # ifdef HAVE_INET_NTOA
64 addr
= inet_ntoa (*(struct in_addr
*) he
->h_addr
);
66 # endif /* HAVE_INET_NTOA */
69 if (addr
&& strcmp (he
->h_name
, addr
) == 0)
70 /* gethostbyname() cheated! Lookup the host name via the address
71 this time to get the actual host name. */
72 he
= gethostbyaddr (he
->h_addr
, he
->h_length
, he
->h_addrtype
);
73 # endif /* HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR */
76 return (char *) (he
->h_name
);
78 #endif /* HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME */
82 #ifdef TEST_CANON_HOST
84 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
87 for (i
= 1; i
< argc
; i
++)
89 char *s
= canon_host (argv
[i
]);
90 printf ("%s: %s\n", argv
[i
], (s
? s
: "<undef>"));
94 #endif /* TEST_CANON_HOST */