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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 16:58:41 +0000
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+/* Host name canonicalization
+
+ Copyright (C) 2005-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ Written by Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>.
+
+ This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "canon-host.h"
+
+#include <string.h>
+#include <netdb.h>
+
+/* Store the last error for the single-threaded version of this function. */
+static int last_cherror;
+
+/* Single-threaded of wrapper for canon_host_r. After a NULL return, error
+ messages may be retrieved via ch_strerror(). */
+char *
+canon_host (const char *host)
+{
+ return canon_host_r (host, &last_cherror);
+}
+
+/* Return a malloc'd string containing the canonical hostname associated with
+ HOST, or NULL if a canonical name cannot be determined. On NULL return,
+ if CHERROR is not NULL, set *CHERROR to an error code as returned by
+ getaddrinfo(). Use ch_strerror_r() or gai_strerror() to convert a *CHERROR
+ value to a string suitable for error messages.
+
+ WARNINGS
+ HOST must be a string representation of a resolvable name for this host.
+ Strings containing an IP address in dotted decimal notation will be
+ returned as-is, without further resolution.
+
+ The use of the word "canonical" in this context is unfortunate but
+ entrenched. The value returned by this function will be the end result
+ of the resolution of any CNAME chains in the DNS. There may only be one
+ such value for any given hostname, though the actual IP address
+ referenced by this value and the device using that IP address may each
+ actually have any number of such "canonical" hostnames. See the POSIX
+ getaddrinfo spec
+ <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getaddrinfo.html>,
+ RFC 1034 <https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt>, & RFC 2181
+ <https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt> for more on what this confusing
+ term really refers to. */
+char *
+canon_host_r (char const *host, int *cherror)
+{
+ char *retval = NULL;
+ static struct addrinfo hints;
+ struct addrinfo *res = NULL;
+ int status;
+
+ hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME;
+ status = getaddrinfo (host, NULL, &hints, &res);
+ if (!status)
+ {
+ /* https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00300.html
+ says Darwin 7.9.0 getaddrinfo returns 0 but sets
+ res->ai_canonname to NULL. */
+ retval = strdup (res->ai_canonname ? res->ai_canonname : host);
+ if (!retval && cherror)
+ *cherror = EAI_MEMORY;
+ freeaddrinfo (res);
+ }
+ else if (cherror)
+ *cherror = status;
+
+ return retval;
+}
+
+/* Return a string describing the last error encountered by canon_host. */
+const char *
+ch_strerror (void)
+{
+ return gai_strerror (last_cherror);
+}