Use AI_NUMERICHOST when using getaddrinfo to bind() our client sockets

2017-02-28 23:34:11 +01:00
parent 73915e889d
commit fa3d44e7aa
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ void TCPClientSocketHandler::init_socket(const struct addrinfo* rp)
      // Convert the address from string format to a sockaddr that can be
      // used in bind()
      struct addrinfo* result;
-      int err = ::getaddrinfo(this->bind_addr.data(), nullptr, nullptr, &result);
+      struct addrinfo hints;
+      memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
+      hints.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICHOST;
+      hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
+      int err = ::getaddrinfo(this->bind_addr.data(), nullptr, &hints, &result);
      if (err != 0 || !result)
        log_error("Failed to bind socket to ", this->bind_addr, ": ",
                  gai_strerror(err));