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socket and server ip address
I am creating and binding a socket on my server with the following optons on a clustered environment
The above server is running in background and continously listening for incoming packets.
Once I accept a new request I want to make sure that the client's request came on specific server's IP address only.
I tried two options to get server's IP:
0.0.0.0 and 127.0.01 does not help me as client may have initiated a request againt server's ip address say 10.10.20.20
How do I get the specific IP address from either "fd" or "file descriptor from returned accept call" so that I can make a check that client sent request on this IP only.
struct addrinfo hints, *start, *results;
bzero(&hints, sizeof(struct addrinfo));
hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE; // Use address return by getaddrinfo in bind() return addrinfo will have INADDR_ANY set to IPv4 adress and INADDR6_ANY_INIT for IPv6 address
hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC; // return both the family AF_INET and AF_INET6 address structures
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
getaddrinfo(NULL, "4455", &hints, &results);
int fd = socket(results->ai_family, results->ai_socktype, results->ai_protocol);
bind(fd, results->ai_addr, results->ai_addrlen);
The above server is running in background and continously listening for incoming packets.
Once I accept a new request I want to make sure that the client's request came on specific server's IP address only.
I tried two options to get server's IP:
METHOD 1 ---> This prints Addres = 0.0.0.0
// I believe this is because I have AI_PASSIVE set.
struct sockaddr_storage addr;
len = sizeof (struct sockaddr_storage);
getsockname(fd, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, &len );
struct sockaddr_in *sin = (struct sockaddr_in *)&addr;
char str[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];
inet_ntop(AF_INET, &sin->sin_addr, str, INET_ADDRSTRLEN);
DBG0(" Addres = " << str);
METHOD 2: --> This prints Adress =127.0.0.1
In this method, instead of using "fd", I am using the socket descriptor from "accept" call
0.0.0.0 and 127.0.01 does not help me as client may have initiated a request againt server's ip address say 10.10.20.20
How do I get the specific IP address from either "fd" or "file descriptor from returned accept call" so that I can make a check that client sent request on this IP only.
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