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Soulstorm · Mar 2nd, 2008, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Game_Ender

Where is your server code?

Well you aren't check the return of "gethostbyname" which could very well be NULL. That would be a quick crash. You also don't zero out you sockaddr_in structure before using it. Here is some code I have that does a similar thing:

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    memset(&m_addr, 0, sizeof(m_addr));
    m_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;    // host byte order
    m_addr.sin_port = htons(port);  // short, network byte order
    m_addr.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr *)he->h_addr);
    memset(&m_addr, 0, sizeof(m_addr));
    m_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;    // host byte order
    m_addr.sin_port = htons(port);  // short, network byte order
    m_addr.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr *)he->h_addr);

I think you are trying to do something simular with this:

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memset(their_addr.sin_zero, '\0', sizeof their_addr.sin_zero);
memset(their_addr.sin_zero, '\0', sizeof their_addr.sin_zero);

Wikipedia has good article here.

Thanks for the reply. There is no server code. The host I connect to is an IRC network host.