DragonFly On-Line Manual Pages

firedns_aton6(3)      DragonFly Library Functions Manual      firedns_aton6(3)

NAME
       firedns_aton6 - convert a colon seperated IPv6 address to binary format

SYNOPSIS
       #include <firedns.h>
       -lfiredns

       struct in6_addr *firedns_aton6(const char * const ipstring)
       struct in6_addr *firedns_aton6_r(const char * const ipstring)
       struct in6_addr *firedns_aton6_s(const char * const ipstring, struct
       in6_addr *ip)

DESCRIPTION
       firedns_aton6() takes an IPv6 address in colon seperated notation in
       ipstring and returns a struct in6_addr containing the address in binary
       format.

RETURN VALUE
       Returns a struct in6_addr containing the IP address in binary form, or
       NULL if ipstring is not a valid IP.

AUTHOR
       Ian Gulliver <ian@penguinhosting.net>

SEE ALSO
       libfiredns(3)

                                  2002-03-31                  firedns_aton6(3)