/* * This program fragment sends a datagram to a receiver whose * name is retrieved from the command line arguments. The form * of the command line is dgramsend hostname portnumber. */ #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <netdb.h> #include <stdio.h> #define DATA "The sea is calm tonight, the tide is full..." main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { int sock; struct sockaddr_in name; struct hostent *hp, *gethostbyname(); /* Create a socket on which to send. */ sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); if (sock < 0) { perror("opening datagram socket"); exit(1); }
/* * Construct name, with no wildcards, of the socket to send to. * gethostbyname() returns a structure including the network * address of the specified host. The port number is taken * from the command line. */ hp = gethostbyname(argv[1]); if (hp == 0) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: unknown host", argv[1]); exit(2); } bcopy(hp->h_addr, &name.sin_addr, hp->h_length); name.sin_family = AF_INET; name.sin_len = sizeof(name); name.sin_port = htons(atoi(argv[2])); /* Send message. */ if (sendto(sock, DATA, sizeof(DATA), 0, (struct sockaddr *)&name, sizeof(name)) < 0) perror("sending datagram message"); close(sock); }