getsockname - retrieve the sockaddr for a given socket


NAME

getsockname - retrieve the sockaddr for a given socket


SYNOPSIS

getsockname SOCKET


DESCRIPTION

Returns the packed sockaddr address of this end of the SOCKET connection, in case you don't know the address because you have several different IPs that the connection might have come in on.

    use Socket;
    $mysockaddr = getsockname(SOCK);
    ($port, $myaddr) = sockaddr_in($mysockaddr);
    printf "Connect to %s [%s]\n",
       scalar gethostbyaddr($myaddr, AF_INET),
       inet_ntoa($myaddr);
 getsockname - retrieve the sockaddr for a given socket