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class method
IPSocket.getaddress_orig
getaddress_orig(p1)
ext/socket/ipsocket.c
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static VALUE
ip_s_getaddress(VALUE obj, VALUE host)
{
union_sockaddr addr;
struct rb_addrinfo *res = rsock_addrinfo(host, Qnil, AF_UNSPEC, SOCK_STREAM, 0, Qnil);
socklen_t len = res->ai->ai_addrlen;
/* just take the first one */
memcpy(&addr, res->ai->ai_addr, len);
rb_freeaddrinfo(res);
return rsock_make_ipaddr(&addr.addr, len);
}
Alias of .getaddress
Lookups the IP address of host.
Example
require 'socket' IPSocket.getaddress("localhost") #=> "127.0.0.1" IPSocket.getaddress("ip6-localhost") #=> "::1"