Subject: Re: socket binding
From: [email-masked] ("$Bill Luebkert")

11 Aug 1997 21:55:39 -0700
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Dong Zhou wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A question about sockets.
> 
> It seems that my program can't correctly bind a socket.
> The code is like following:
> 
>         if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, udp?SOCK_DGRAM:SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
>             err("socket");
>         if (bind(fd, &sinme, sizeof(sinme)) < 0)
>             err("bind");
> 
> The socket() call is successful but the bind() fails, and the error
> number it returned is 106, which, from "errno.h", is EAFNOSUPPORT.

That means address family not supported.
So what did you set the address family in sinme to?

> and, TCP/IP stuff seems are working well (at least I can use Netscape and
> ftp...) and the program actually works on Solaris. (The port number
> assigned is 5001)
> 
> Can somebody tell me: what does the error mean? and what is the problem
> behind it? (something wrong with my NT system?)

Where's the rest of the pertinent code, like setting up sinme?

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