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Old 02-20-2017, 02:13 AM   #1
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Get hostname from IP in C language?


Hello,

Would you know a possible code to get the PC's hostname in C language of a given IP?

Here a possible code to check an ip.
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

int isIP(char *ip)
{
    char *data_ptr = ip;    // Create a pointer to passed data
    int orig_str_size = 0;  // Create an int to hold passed data size
    int str_index = 0;      // Create an int to iterate individual ip characters
    int dot_count = 0;      // Create an int to check for the number of dots

    // Count the number of characters in data_ptr
    while (*data_ptr++ != '\0'){ orig_str_size++; }

    if(orig_str_size <= 0) // If nothing
    {
        printf("Get a grip, ip is empty\n\n");
        exit(0);
    }
    else // If within IPv4 size range
    if(orig_str_size >= 7 && orig_str_size <= INET_ADDRSTRLEN)
    {
        char *data1_ptr = ip; // Create a pointer to passed data
        printf("Within IPv4 range, %i characters in length\n\n", orig_str_size);

        // Count the number of dots in the string, 3 for IPv4
        for(str_index; str_index < orig_str_size; str_index++)
        {
            if(data1_ptr[str_index] == '.'){ dot_count++; }
        }

        // If theres 3 dots, while ignoring dots, check each char is a digit 
        if(dot_count == 3)
        {

            printf("There's three dots in the string\n\n");
            data1_ptr = ip;
            str_index = 0;

            // Iterate the string char by char
            for(str_index; str_index < orig_str_size; str_index++)
            {
                // Ignoring dots
                if(data1_ptr[str_index] != '.')
                { 
                    // If isdigit() is happy its a digit and isalpha() happy not alphabetic
                    if(isdigit(data1_ptr[str_index]) && !isalpha(data1_ptr[str_index]))
                    {
                        printf("Digit found and is not alphabetic\n\n");
                        continue;
                    }
                    else
                    if(!isdigit(data1_ptr[str_index]) && isalpha(data1_ptr[str_index]))
                    {
                        printf("Not a recognised IPv4 address, character detected in string\n\n");
                        exit(0);
                    }
                }
            }

            return 0;
        }
    }
    else // If IPv6
    if(orig_str_size > 0 && orig_str_size > INET_ADDRSTRLEN && orig_str_size <= INET6_ADDRSTRLEN)
    {
        printf("Within IPv6 range %i\n\n", orig_str_size);
        return 0;
    }
    else
    {
        printf("Unknown target format, the format you provided as a target is not implemented\n\n");
        exit(0);
    }

}


int main(){
     isIP( "10.0.0.9" );
}
Thank you
 
Old 02-20-2017, 02:25 AM   #2
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what about gethostbyaddr/getaddrinfo ? https://linux.die.net/man/3/gethostbyaddr https://linux.die.net/man/3/getaddrinfo
 
Old 02-20-2017, 04:22 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by pan64 View Post
sounds interesting, this one works on www.google.com but not on 192.168.100.100 ...

Code:
#include<stdio.h> //printf
#include<string.h> //memset
#include<stdlib.h> //for exit(0);
#include<sys/socket.h>
#include<errno.h> //For errno - the error number
#include<netdb.h> //hostent
#include<arpa/inet.h>
 
int hostname_to_ip(char *  , char *);
 
int main(int argc , char *argv[])
{
    if(argc <2)
    {
        printf("Please provide a hostname to resolve");
        exit(1);
    }
     
    char *hostname = argv[1];
    char ip[100];
     
    hostname_to_ip(hostname , ip);
    printf("%s resolved to %s" , hostname , ip);
     
    printf("\n");
     
}
/*
    Get ip from domain name
 */
 
int hostname_to_ip(char * hostname , char* ip)
{
    struct hostent *he;
    struct in_addr **addr_list;
    int i;
         
    if ( (he = gethostbyname( hostname ) ) == NULL) 
    {
        // get the host info
        herror("gethostbyname");
        return 1;
    }
 
    addr_list = (struct in_addr **) he->h_addr_list;
     
    for(i = 0; addr_list[i] != NULL; i++) 
    {
        //Return the first one;
        strcpy(ip , inet_ntoa(*addr_list[i]) );
        return 0;
    }
     
    return 1;
}
 
Old 02-20-2017, 04:51 AM   #4
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http://www.unix.com/programming/1258...p-address.html
 
Old 02-20-2017, 06:07 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by pan64 View Post
it looks nice but give error while compiling with gcc.

herewith the code:

Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

char *GETHOSTBYADDR(const char *INADDR_ANY)
{
    struct sockaddr_in
    {
        short        sin_family;    // e.g. AF_INET, AF_INET6
        unsigned short    sin_port;    // e.g. htons(80)
        struct in_addr    sin_addr;    // see struct in_addr, below
        char        sin_zero[8];    // zero this if you want to
    };

    struct in_addr
    {
        unsigned long s_addr;    // load with inet_pton()
    };

    struct sockaddr_in *SA;

    SA.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; // set the local IP address
    SA.sin_port = htons(80); // set the port number

    static char HOSTNAME[128] = "";

    getnameinfo(SA, sizeof(SA), HOSTNAME, sizeof(HOSTNAME), NULL, 0, NI_NAMEREQD);

    return HOSTNAME;
}

int main(void)
{
    puts(GETHOSTBYADDR("209.85.229.106")); // testing on google's IP

    return 0;
}
 
Old 02-20-2017, 06:52 AM   #6
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and how did you try to compile it and what was the error message?
 
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Old 02-20-2017, 09:02 AM   #7
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@OP: Should you try google, you would get results like this: http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/ht...bynameman.html
 
Old 02-20-2017, 09:31 AM   #8
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@OP: Should you try google, you would get results like this: http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/ht...bynameman.html
thank you, Sir.

Google is indeed a cool thing that works rather well, indeed!

Code:
./a.out  10.0.0.213 
Official name is: 10.0.0.213
    IP addresses: 10.0.0.213
using the following:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int i;
    struct hostent *he;
    struct in_addr **addr_list;

    if (argc != 2) {
        fprintf(stderr,"usage: ghbn hostname\n");
        return 1;
    }

    if ((he = gethostbyname(argv[1])) == NULL) {  // get the host info
        herror("gethostbyname");
        return 2;
    }

    // print information about this host:
    printf("Official name is: %s\n", he->h_name);
    printf("    IP addresses: ");
    addr_list = (struct in_addr **)he->h_addr_list;
    for(i = 0; addr_list[i] != NULL; i++) {
        printf("%s ", inet_ntoa(*addr_list[i]));
    }
    printf("\n");

    return 0;
}
 
Old 02-20-2017, 10:35 AM   #9
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Or, by name:
Code:
$ ./a.out google.com
Official name is: google.com
    IP addresses: 216.58.214.206
 
  


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