class InetHostAddress

Address of a specific Internet host machine. More...

Definition#include <socket.h>
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This object is used to hold the actual and valid internet address of a specific host machine that will be accessed through a socket.

InetHostAddress ()

Create a new host address for the "local" host. This is set to the IP address that represents the interface matching "gethostname()".

InetHostAddress (const char *host)

Create a new host address for a specific internet host. The internet host can be specified in a null terminated ASCII string and include either the physical host address or the DNS name of a host machine. Hence, an InetHostAddress ("www.voxilla.org") can be directly declaired in this manner.

Parameters:
hostdns or physical address of an Internet host.

InetHostAddress (struct in_addr addr)

Convert a system socket binary address such as may be returned through the accept() call or getsockpeer() into an internet host address object.

Parameters:
addrbinary address of internet host.

InetHostAddress & operator&= (InetMaskAddress &mask)

Mask the internet host address object with a network mask address. This is commonly used to coerce an address by subnet.