inet_ntop - convert IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from binary to text form
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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│ inet_ntop() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
Bugs
AF_INET6 converts IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses into an IPv6 format.
Description
This function converts the network address structure src in the af address family into a character
string. The resulting string is copied to the buffer pointed to by dst, which must be a non-null
pointer. The caller specifies the number of bytes available in this buffer in the argument size.
inet_ntop() extends the inet_ntoa(3) function to support multiple address families, inet_ntoa(3) is now
considered to be deprecated in favor of inet_ntop(). The following address families are currently
supported:
AF_INETsrc points to a structin_addr (in network byte order) which is converted to an IPv4 network
address in the dotted-decimal format, "ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd". The buffer dst must be at least
INET_ADDRSTRLEN bytes long.
AF_INET6src points to a structin6_addr (in network byte order) which is converted to a representation of
this address in the most appropriate IPv6 network address format for this address. The buffer dst
must be at least INET6_ADDRSTRLEN bytes long.
Errors
EAFNOSUPPORTaf was not a valid address family.
ENOSPC The converted address string would exceed the size given by size.
Examples
See inet_pton(3).
History
POSIX.1-2001.
Note that RFC 2553 defines a prototype where the last argument size is of type size_t. Many systems
follow RFC 2553. glibc 2.0 and 2.1 have size_t, but 2.2 and later have socklen_t.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
inet_ntop - convert IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from binary to text form
Return Value
On success, inet_ntop() returns a non-null pointer to dst. NULL is returned if there was an error, with
errno set to indicate the error.
See Also
getnameinfo(3), inet(3), inet_pton(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 inet_ntop(3)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<arpa/inet.h>constchar*inet_ntop(intaf,constvoid*restrictsrc,chardst[restrict.size],socklen_tsize);