Obtaining local IP address using getaddrinfo() C function?

Question

I'm trying to obtain my local (not the external) IP address using the getaddrinfo() function, but I saw the examples provided here, and they where too complex for my needs. Also saw other posts and most of them really wanted to get the external IP, not the local one.

Could anyone provide a link to a simple example (or a simple example) about how to obtain my own local IP address using this function ?

Just to be clear when I say local, if a router is 192.168.0.1 , my local IP address could be something like 192.168.0.x ( just an example ).

Answer 1

getaddrinfo() isn't for obtaining your local IP address - it's for looking up names and/or services to socket addresses. To obtain the local IP address(es), the function you want is getifaddrs() - here's a minimal example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <ifaddrs.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    struct ifaddrs *myaddrs, *ifa;
    void *in_addr;
    char buf[64];

    if(getifaddrs(&myaddrs) != 0)
    {
        perror("getifaddrs");
        exit(1);
    }

    for (ifa = myaddrs; ifa != NULL; ifa = ifa->ifa_next)
    {
        if (ifa->ifa_addr == NULL)
            continue;
        if (!(ifa->ifa_flags & IFF_UP))
            continue;

        switch (ifa->ifa_addr->sa_family)
        {
            case AF_INET:
            {
                struct sockaddr_in *s4 = (struct sockaddr_in *)ifa->ifa_addr;
                in_addr = &s4->sin_addr;
                break;
            }

            case AF_INET6:
            {
                struct sockaddr_in6 *s6 = (struct sockaddr_in6 *)ifa->ifa_addr;
                in_addr = &s6->sin6_addr;
                break;
            }

            default:
                continue;
        }

        if (!inet_ntop(ifa->ifa_addr->sa_family, in_addr, buf, sizeof(buf)))
        {
            printf("%s: inet_ntop failed!\n", ifa->ifa_name);
        }
        else
        {
            printf("%s: %s\n", ifa->ifa_name, buf);
        }
    }

    freeifaddrs(myaddrs);
    return 0;
}

Answer 2

Pass the hostname after using gethostname(), to gethostbyname()

int gethostname(char *hostname, size_t size);