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>GETADDRINFO(3)          System Library Functions Manual         GETADDRINFO(3)
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NAME
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     getaddrinfo, freeaddrinfo, gai_strerror - nodename-to-address translation
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     in protocol-independent manner
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SYNOPSIS
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     #include &lt;sys/types.h&#62;
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     #include &lt;sys/socket.h&#62;
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     #include &lt;netdb.h&#62;
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     int
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     getaddrinfo(const char *nodename, const char *servname,
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             const struct addrinfo *hints, struct addrinfo **res);
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     void
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     freeaddrinfo(struct addrinfo *ai);
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     char *
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     gai_strerror(int ecode);
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DESCRIPTION
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     The getaddrinfo() function is defined for protocol-independent nodename-
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     to-address translation.  It performs the functionality of
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     gethostbyname(3) and getservbyname(3), but in a more sophisticated man-
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     ner.
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     The addrinfo structure is defined as a result of including the &lt;netdb.h&#62;
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     header:
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     struct addrinfo {                                                  *
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          int     ai_flags;     /* AI_PASSIVE, AI_CANONNAME, AI_NUMERICHOST */
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          int     ai_family;    /* PF_xxx */
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          int     ai_socktype;  /* SOCK_xxx */
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          int     ai_protocol;  /* 0 or IPPROTO_xxx for IPv4 and IPv6 */
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          size_t  ai_addrlen;   /* length of ai_addr */
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          char   *ai_canonname; /* canonical name for nodename */
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          struct sockaddr  *ai_addr; /* binary address */
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          struct addrinfo  *ai_next; /* next structure in linked list */
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     };
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     The nodename and servname arguments are pointers to NUL-terminated
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     strings or NULL.  One or both of these two arguments must be a non-null
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     pointer.  In the normal client scenario, both the nodename and servname
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     are specified.  In the normal server scenario, only the servname is spec-
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     ified.  A non-null nodename string can be either a node name or a numeric
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     host address string (i.e., a dotted-decimal IPv4 address or an IPv6 hex
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     address).  A non-null servname string can be either a service name or a
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     decimal port number.
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     The caller can optionally pass an addrinfo structure, pointed to by the
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     third argument, to provide hints concerning the type of socket that the
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     caller supports.  In this hints structure all members other than
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     ai_flags, ai_family, ai_socktype, and ai_protocol must be zero or a null
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     pointer.  A value of PF_UNSPEC for ai_family means the caller will accept
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     any protocol family.  A value of 0 for ai_socktype means the caller will
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     accept any socket type.  A value of 0 for ai_protocol means the caller
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     will accept any protocol.  For example, if the caller handles only TCP
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     and not UDP, then the ai_socktype member of the hints structure should be
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     set to SOCK_STREAM when getaddrinfo() is called.  If the caller handles
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     only IPv4 and not IPv6, then the ai_family member of the hints structure
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     should be set to PF_INET when getaddrinfo() is called.  If the third
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     argument to getaddrinfo() is a null pointer, this is the same as if the
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     caller had filled in an addrinfo structure initialized to zero with
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     ai_family set to PF_UNSPEC.
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     Upon successful return a pointer to a linked list of one or more addrinfo
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     structures is returned through the final argument.  The caller can pro-
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     cess each addrinfo structure in this list by following the ai_next
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     pointer, until a null pointer is encountered.  In each returned addrinfo
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     structure the three members ai_family, ai_socktype, and ai_protocol are
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     the corresponding arguments for a call to the socket() function.  In each
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     addrinfo structure the ai_addr member points to a filled-in socket
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     address structure whose length is specified by the ai_addrlen member.
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     If the AI_PASSIVE bit is set in the ai_flags member of the hints struc-
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     ture, then the caller plans to use the returned socket address structure
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     in a call to bind().  In this case, if the nodename argument is a null
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     pointer, then the IP address portion of the socket address structure will
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     be set to INADDR_ANY for an IPv4 address or IN6ADDR_ANY_INIT for an IPv6
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     address.
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     If the AI_PASSIVE bit is not set in the ai_flags member of the hints
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     structure, then the returned socket address structure will be ready for a
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     call to connect() (for a connection-oriented protocol) or either
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     connect(), sendto(), or sendmsg() (for a connectionless protocol).  In
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     this case, if the nodename argument is a null pointer, then the IP
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     address portion of the socket address structure will be set to the loop-
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     back address.
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     If the AI_CANONNAME bit is set in the ai_flags member of the hints struc-
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     ture, then upon successful return the ai_canonname member of the first
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     addrinfo structure in the linked list will point to a NUL-terminated
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     string containing the canonical name of the specified nodename.
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     If the AI_NUMERICHOST bit is set in the ai_flags member of the hints
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     structure, then a non-null nodename string must be a numeric host address
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     string.  Otherwise an error of EAI_NONAME is returned.  This flag pre-
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     vents any type of name resolution service (e.g., the DNS) from being
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     called.
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     The arguments to getaddrinfo() must sufficiently be consistent and unam-
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     biguous.  Here are pitfall cases you may encounter:
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     o   getaddrinfo() will raise an error if members of the hints structure
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         are not consistent.  For example, for internet address families,
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         getaddrinfo() will raise an error if you specify SOCK_STREAM to
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         ai_socktype while you specify IPPROTO_UDP to ai_protocol.
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     o   If you specify a servname which is defined only for certain
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         ai_socktype, getaddrinfo() will raise an error because the arguments
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         are not consistent.  For example, getaddrinfo() will raise an error
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         if you ask for ``tftp'' service on SOCK_STREAM.
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     o   For internet address families, if you specify servname while you set
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         ai_socktype to SOCK_RAW, getaddrinfo() will raise an error, because
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         service names are not defined for the internet SOCK_RAW space.
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     o   If you specify a numeric servname, while leaving ai_socktype and
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         ai_protocol unspecified, getaddrinfo() will raise an error.  This is
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         because the numeric servname does not identify any socket type, and
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         getaddrinfo() is not allowed to glob the argument in such case.
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     All of the information returned by getaddrinfo() is dynamically allo-
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     cated: the addrinfo structures, the socket address structures, and canon-
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     ical node name strings pointed to by the addrinfo structures.  To return
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     this information to the system the function freeaddrinfo() is called.
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     The addrinfo structure pointed to by the ai argument is freed, along with
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     any dynamic storage pointed to by the structure.  This operation is
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     repeated until a NULL ai_next pointer is encountered.
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     To aid applications in printing error messages based on the EAI_xxx codes
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     returned by getaddrinfo(), gai_strerror() is defined.  The argument is
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     a string describing the error.  If the argument is not one of the EAI_xxx
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     values, the function still returns a pointer to a string whose contents
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     indicate an unknown error.
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   Extension for scoped IPv6 address
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     The implementation allows experimental numeric IPv6 address notation with
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     scope identifier.  By appending the percent character and scope identi-
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     fier to addresses, you can fill sin6_scope_id field for addresses.  This
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     would make management of scoped address easier, and allows cut-and-paste
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     input of scoped address.
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     At this moment the code supports only link-local addresses with the for-
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     mat.  Scope identifier is hardcoded to name of hardware interface associ-
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     ated with the link.  (such as ne0).  Example would be like
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     ``fe80::1%ne0'', which means ``fe80::1 on the link associated with ne0
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     interface''.
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     The implementation is still very experimental and non-standard.  The cur-
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     link, which is not necessarily true from the specification.
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     The following code tries to connect to ``www.kame.net'' service ``http''.
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     less from address family.  If the destination resolves to IPv4 address,
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     it will use AF_INET socket.  Similarly, if it resolves to IPv6, AF_INET6
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     socket is used.  Observe that there is no hardcoded reference to particu-
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           struct addrinfo hints, *res, *res0;
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           memset(&amp;hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
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           hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC;
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           error = getaddrinfo("www.kame.net", "http", &amp;hints, &amp;res0);
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           s = -1;
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           for (res = res0; res; res = res-&#62;ai_next) {
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                   s = socket(res-&#62;ai_family, res-&#62;ai_socktype,
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                   if (connect(s, res-&#62;ai_addr, res-&#62;ai_addrlen) &lt; 0) {
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           freeaddrinfo(res0);
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     The following example tries to open a wildcard listening socket onto ser-
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           memset(&amp;hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
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           hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC;
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                   errx(1, "%s", gai_strerror(error));
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           for (res = res0; res &amp;&amp; nsock &lt; MAXSOCK; res = res-&#62;ai_next) {
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     EAI_ADDRFAMILY  Address family for nodename not supported.
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     EAI_AGAIN       Temporary failure in name resolution.
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     EAI_BADFLAGS    Invalid value for ai_flags.
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     EAI_FAIL        Non-recoverable failure in name resolution.
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     EAI_FAMILY      ai_family not supported.
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     EAI_MEMORY      Memory allocation failure.
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     EAI_NODATA      No address associated with nodename.
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     EAI_NONAME      nodename nor servname provided, or not known.
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     EAI_SOCKTYPE    ai_socktype not supported.
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     EAI_SYSTEM      System error returned in errno.
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     whose contents indicate an unknown error.
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SEE ALSO
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     getnameinfo(3), gethostbyname(3), getservbyname(3), hosts(5),
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     resolv.conf(5), services(5), hostname(7), named(8)
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     R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, and W. Stevens, Basic Socket Interface
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     Extensions for IPv6, RFC2553, March 1999.
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     Tatsuya Jinmei and Atsushi Onoe, An Extension of Format for IPv6 Scoped
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     Addresses, internet draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-scopedaddr-format-02.txt,
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     work in progress material.
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     Craig Metz, "Protocol Independence Using the Sockets API", Proceedings of
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     the freenix track: 2000 USENIX annual technical conference, June 2000.
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     The implementation first appeared in WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack
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     The getaddrinfo() function is defined in IEEE POSIX 1003.1g draft speci-
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     IPv6'' (RFC2553).
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     The text was shamelessly copied from RFC2553.
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