/* Host name canonicalization Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Miles Bader This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include #endif #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H #include #endif #ifdef HAVE_STRING_H #include #endif #ifdef HAVE_NETDB_H #include #endif #ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H #include #endif #ifdef HAVE_NETINET_IN_H #include #endif #ifdef HAVE_ARPA_INET_H #include #endif /* Returns the canonical hostname associated with HOST (allocated in a static buffer), or 0 if it can't be determined. */ char * canon_host (host) char *host; { #ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME struct hostent *he = gethostbyname (host); if (he) { #ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR char *addr = 0; /* Try and get an ascii version of the numeric host address. */ switch (he->h_addrtype) { #ifdef HAVE_INET_NTOA case AF_INET: addr = inet_ntoa (*(struct in_addr *) he->h_addr); break; #endif /* HAVE_INET_NTOA */ } if (addr && strcmp (he->h_name, addr) == 0) /* gethostbyname() cheated! Lookup the host name via the address this time to get the actual host name. */ he = gethostbyaddr (he->h_addr, he->h_length, he->h_addrtype); #endif /* HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR */ if (he) return (char *) (he->h_name); } #endif /* HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME */ return 0; }