Given a filedescriptor, how can I find source IP??

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sun Mar 31 09:57:30 AEST 1991


>It turns out that in SunOS3.x, inetd by default passed the ip address
>as a command line arg to in.telnetd. 
>
>In SunOS4.1 they "fixed" it so that it does not.

More correctly, in SunOS 4.*0* they picked up the 4.3BSD "inetd", which
handed you a socket for the connection on file descriptors 0, 1, and 2,
and didn't hand you the IP address as a command-line argument.



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