const struct addrinfo *hints,
struct addrinfo **res)
{
- struct hostent *h = gethostbyname(node);
+ struct hostent *h = NULL;
struct addrinfo *ai;
struct sockaddr_in *sin;
- if (!h)
- return WSAGetLastError();
+ if (node) {
+ h = gethostbyname(node);
+ if (!h)
+ return WSAGetLastError();
+ }
ai = xmalloc(sizeof(struct addrinfo));
*res = ai;
ai->ai_flags = 0;
ai->ai_family = AF_INET;
- ai->ai_socktype = hints->ai_socktype;
- switch (hints->ai_socktype) {
+ ai->ai_socktype = hints ? hints->ai_socktype : 0;
+ switch (ai->ai_socktype) {
case SOCK_STREAM:
ai->ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
break;
break;
}
ai->ai_addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
- ai->ai_canonname = strdup(h->h_name);
+ if (hints && (hints->ai_flags & AI_CANONNAME))
+ ai->ai_canonname = h ? strdup(h->h_name) : NULL;
+ else
+ ai->ai_canonname = NULL;
sin = xmalloc(ai->ai_addrlen);
memset(sin, 0, ai->ai_addrlen);
sin->sin_family = AF_INET;
+ /* Note: getaddrinfo is supposed to allow service to be a string,
+ * which should be looked up using getservbyname. This is
+ * currently not implemented */
if (service)
sin->sin_port = htons(atoi(service));
- sin->sin_addr = *(struct in_addr *)h->h_addr;
+ if (h)
+ sin->sin_addr = *(struct in_addr *)h->h_addr;
+ else if (hints && (hints->ai_flags & AI_PASSIVE))
+ sin->sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
+ else
+ sin->sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_LOOPBACK;
ai->ai_addr = (struct sockaddr *)sin;
ai->ai_next = 0;
return 0;