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This is version 1.1 of the hostinfo extension library for Chicken Scheme.

Description

Look up host, protocol, and service information

This extension performs host, protocol and service information lookups via underlying calls to gethostbyname(3), getprotobyname(3), and getservbyname(3). Depending on your system, this may consult DNS, NIS, /etc/hosts, /etc/services, /etc/protocols, and so on.

A simple interface is provided for the most commmon queries. Also provided is a more comprehensive interface using records, which contain all data available in a lookup.

IP addresses are represented by 4 (IPv4) or 16 (IPv6) byte u8vectors. The interface requires, and returns, addresses in this format; functions are provided to convert between the string and u8vector representations. However, the "do what I want" procedures (e.g. host-information) will do the conversion for you.

Short and sweet

Quickly perform the most common lookups. Convenient and efficient for one-off use, but perform a new lookup each time. They return #f on failure.

hostname->ip HOSTNAMEprocedure: Look up string HOSTNAME and return IP address as u8vector.

ip->hostname IPADDRprocedure: Look up u8vector IPADDR and return hostname as string.

protocol-name->number PROTOCOL-NAMEprocedure: Look up string PROTOCOL-NAME and return protocol number.

protocol-number->name PROTOCOL-NUMBERprocedure: Look up PROTOCOL-NUMBER and return protocol name as string.

service-port->name SERVICE-PORT #!optional PROTOprocedure: Look up SERVICE-PORT number and return service name as string. Optional PROTO argument, which must be a string, constrains lookup to that protocol.

service-name->port SERVICE-NAME #!optional PROTOprocedure: Look up string SERVICE-NAME and return the canonical port for that service. Optional PROTO argument as above.

Records

Some lookups return a host, protocol, or service record. These records print nicely on the screen, for convenient interactive use.

hostinfo-address hprocedure: Retrieves the address field of the hostinfo record h. Accessors are similar for other records and their fields.

hostinforecord

name	Hostname
addresses	A vector of one or more u8vector IP addresses
aliases	A vector of any alternate hostnames
address	The first IP address (u8vector) in addresses
type	'AF_INET (IPv4) or 'AF_INET6 (IPv6)
length	IP address length in bytes

protoinforecord

name	Protocol name
number	Protocol number
aliases	Vector of alternate names for this protocol

servinforecord

name	Service name
number	Service number
aliases	Vector of alternate names for this service
protocol	Name of protocol this service uses

Record lookup

hostname->hostinfo NAMEprocedure
ip->hostinfo IPADDRprocedure
service-name->servinfo NAMEprocedure
service-port->servinfo NUMprocedure
protocol-name->protoinfo NAMEprocedure
protocol-number->protoinfo NUMprocedure: These lookups correspond to those described in Short and sweet, but return a full record. The entire record is filled in a single system call.

One-stop shops

These decipher your argument, call the appropriate lookup, and return an information record.

host-information HOSTprocedure: Look up and return a hostinfo record, or #f. HOST is a string hostname, a string numeric IP address, or a u8vector IP address.

protocol-information PROTOprocedure: Look up and return a protoinfo record, or #f. PROTO is a protocol number or string name.

service-information SERVICE #!optional PROTOprocedure

Look up and return a servinfo record, or #f. SERVICE is a service number or string name. PROTO is an optional protocol number or string name, which will constrain lookups to that particular protocol.

NOTE: if the protocol number is illegal, an error is thrown, since this was probably unintentional.

Utility functions

string->ip IP-STRINGprocedure: Convert an IPv4 or IPv6 address string in canonical format to a u8vector, which can be considered an "IP address object". Returns #f on failure.

ip->string IPADDRprocedure: Convert a 4 (IPv4) or 16 (IPv6) element u8vector to a string in canonical format. Throws an error if the u8vector is not 4 or 16 bytes long. This call should only fail on system error, in which case it will return #f (perhaps not the best behaviour).

current-hostname #!optional HOSTNAMEprocedure

Get the standard host name for the current processor; synonym for get-host-name.

Set the standard host name when a HOSTNAME is specified; assuming permission and argument validity. Aborts with an error upon constraint violation.

Bugs

IPv6 lookup is not yet supported. However, IPv6<->string conversion works fine.

System errors return failure (#f) and so are indistinguishable from failed lookups. They should probably signal an error or an exception.

Examples

(host-information "www.call-with-current-continuation.org")
(host-information '#u8(194 97 107 133))
(host-information "194.97.107.133")
   ; => #,(hostinfo name: "www003.lifemedien.de"
   ;       addresses: #(#u8(194 97 107 133))
   ;       aliases: #("www.call-with-current-continuation.org"))
(ip->hostname '#u8(194 97 107 133))   ; "www003.lifemedien.de"
(string->ip "0708::0901")             ;  #u8(7 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 1)
(ip->string '#u8(127 0 0 1))          ;  "127.0.0.1"
(hostinfo-aliases
 (hostname->hostinfo
  (ip->hostname
   (hostname->ip
    (hostinfo-name
     (host-information "www.call-with-current-continuation.org"))))))
   ; => #("www.call-with-current-continuation.org")

(protocol-information 17)
   ; => #,(protoinfo name: "udp" number: 17 aliases: #("UDP"))
(protoinfo-name (protocol-information 2))   ; => "igmp"
(protoinfo-aliases (protocol-name->protoinfo
                    (protocol-number->name
                     (protoinfo-number
                      (protocol-information "ospf")))))  ; => #("OSPFIGP")
(protocol-name->number "OSPFIGP")     ; 89 (you can look up aliases, too)

(servinfo-protocol (service-name->servinfo
                    (service-port->name
                     (servinfo-port (service-information "ssh")))))
   ; => "udp" (yes, really)
(service-information "ssh" "tcp")
   ; => #,(servinfo name: "ssh" port: 22 aliases: #() protocol: "tcp")
(service-information "ssh" "tco") ; => #f
(service-information 512 "tcp")
   ; #,(servinfo name: "exec" port: 512 aliases: #() protocol: "tcp")
(service-information 512 "udp")
   ; #,(servinfo name: "comsat" port: 512 aliases: #("biff") protocol: "udp")
(service-information 512 17)      ; same as previous
(service-information 512 170000)
   ; Error: (service-information) illegal protocol number: 170000

1.3: Fix for FreeBSD [by Jesper Louis Andersen]
1.1: Experimental Windows support [Daishi Kato]
1.0: Initial release

Requirements

vector-lib

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One-stop shops

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