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1 /* Host name canonicalization
3 Copyright (C) 1995 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
19 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
21 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
22 #include <config.h>
23 #endif
25 #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
26 #include <unistd.h>
27 #endif
28 #ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
29 #include <string.h>
30 #endif
31 #ifdef HAVE_NETDB_H
32 #include <netdb.h>
33 #endif
34 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
35 #include <sys/socket.h>
36 #endif
38 #ifdef HAVE_NETINET_IN_H
39 #include <netinet/in.h>
40 #endif
41 #ifdef HAVE_ARPA_INET_H
42 #include <arpa/inet.h>
43 #endif
45 /* Returns the canonical hostname associated with HOST (allocated in a static
46 buffer), or 0 if it can't be determined. */
47 char *
48 canon_host (host)
49 char *host;
51 #ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME
52 struct hostent *he = gethostbyname (host);
54 if (he)
56 #ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR
57 char *addr = 0;
59 /* Try and get an ascii version of the numeric host address. */
60 switch (he->h_addrtype)
62 #ifdef HAVE_INET_NTOA
63 case AF_INET:
64 addr = inet_ntoa (*(struct in_addr *) he->h_addr);
65 break;
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 */
75 if (he)
76 return (char *) (he->h_name);
78 #endif /* HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME */
79 return 0;