NAME

inet_ntoa - Translates an Internet integer address into a dot-formatted character string

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc.a)

SYNOPSIS

#include <netinet/in.h> #include <arpa/inet.h> char ∗inet_ntoa (
struct in_addr net_addr );

PARAMETERS

net_addr Defines an Internet network-byte ordered integer address to be converted to an equivalent character string. 

DESCRIPTION

The inet_ntoa() function translates an Internet byte-ordered address integer into a dot-formatted character string. The dot-formatted string is returned in network-byte order (most significant byte leftmost, least significant byte rightmost). 

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, the inet_ntoa() function returns a dot-formatted Internet character string address.  When the inet_ntoa() function fails, -1 is returned. 

RELATED INFORMATION

Functions: inet_netof(3), inet_lnaof(3), inet_makeaddr(3), inet_addr(3), inet_network(3)