OSF

NAME

inet_network −  Translates an Internet dot-formatted address string to a network address integer

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc.a)

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/socket.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <arpa/inet.h> u_long inet_network ( char ∗string );

PARAMETERS

stringDefines an Internet dot-formatted address as the character string a.b.c.d, where a, b, c and d may be expressed as decimal, octal, or hexadecimal in the C-language idiom. 

DESCRIPTION

The inet_network() function translates a dot-formatted Internet network character address string to a network byte-ordered address integer (most significant byte leftmost, least significant byte rightmost). 

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, the inet_network() functionreturns an Internet byte-ordered address integer.When the inet_network() function fails, -1 is returned. 

RELATED INFORMATION

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