How to get IP address from sockaddr

Question

I want to try and get the ip address of a client after calling accept. This is what I have so far, but I just end up getting some long number that is clearly not an ip addr

Answer 1

what your are getting is the raw 32 bit integer representation of the IP address. to get the familiar dot separated string, use the function:

 char * inet_ntoa(struct in_addr addr);

that will convert the integer to a static string.