NAME

"socket_getaddrinfo" - command-line tool to "getaddrinfo(3)" resolver

SYNOPSIS

socket_getaddrinfo [options...] host service

DESCRIPTION

This tool provides a convenient command-line wrapper around the getaddrinfo(3) resolver function. It will perform a single lookup and print the returned results in a human-readable form. This is mainly useful when debugging address resolution problems, because it allows inspection of the getaddrinfo(3) behaviour itself, outside of any real program that is trying to use it.

OPTIONS

--host, -H HOST

Hostname to resolve. If not supplied, will use the first positional argument

--service, -S SERVICE

Service name or port number to resolve. If not supplied, will use the second positional argument.

-4

Restrict to just "AF_INET" (IPv4) results

-6

Restrict to just "AF_INET6" (IPv6) results

--stream

Restrict to just "SOCK_STREAM" results

--dgram

Restrict to just "SOCK_DGRAM" results

--proto PROTO

Restrict to just results of the given IP protocol

--passive

Set the "AI_PASSIVE" hint; results will used to bind() and listen() rather than connect()

--canonical

Retrive the canonical name for the requested host

--help

Display a help summary and exit

OUTPUT FORMAT

Each line of output will be given in a form that indicates the four result fields of "ai_family", "ai_socktype", "ai_protocol" and "ai_addr". The first three are printed in the form of a socket(2) call, either symbolically or numerically, and the latter is printed as a plain string following it. For example

 socket(AF_INET , SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) + '127.0.0.1:80'

NOTE

Upstream this script is known as "getaddrinfo", but was renamed on Debian.

AUTHOR

Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>