[cs631apue] Logging Remote IP address

[Jan Schaumann]

bzhang41 <bzhang41 at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> I have a question about the remote IP address.
> I am trying to get the client's IP address, after I call the `accept`
> 
>   client_sock2 = accept(server_sock2,(struct sockaddr *)&client_name,
>                                                          
> &clientname_len);
> 
> But the IP address I got from the client_name.sin_addr is always 
> 0.0.0.0.

You need to use getpeername(3) to get the information about the client
side.

-Jan