Use C to convert domain name to IP (domain name resolution) under Linux

Simply call a function to gethostbyname (),gethostbyname () returns a hostent structure pointer to the host name and address information that corresponds to the given host name. The declaration of the structure is consistent with the GETHOSTADDR (). Here is the function prototype:

under Windows platform

#include <winsock2.h>

struct hostent far *pascal far gethostbyname (const char

Far * name);

Name: A pointer to the host name.

under Linux platform

#include <netdb.h>

struct hostent *gethostbyname (const char * hostname);

Return: Non-null pointer--Success, NULL pointer--error, set H_errno

C Language Program implementation:

 #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <errno.h> #include < netdb.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <netinet/in  .h> int  Main (int  argc, char  *argv[]) { Span class= "KWRD" >struct  hostent *h; char  hostname[40]; printf ( "Please enter the domain name \ n" ); scanf ( "%s" , hostname); GetChar (); if  ((H=gethostbyname (hostname)) ==null)     {fprintf (stderr, "Cannot get IP\n" ); Exit (1); } printf ( "HostName:%s\n" , H->h_name); printf ( "IP Address:%s\n" , Inet_ntoa (* ((struct  in_addr *) h->h  (_ADDR))); return  exit_success;}