Find IP address from remote end of a TCP socket

In C or C++ it is fairly simple to find the IP address of the remote end of a TCP socket. The following example shows how to do this using the getpeername() and inet_ntoa() system calls. int sockfd; int len; char * hostip; struct sockaddr_in sin; len = sizeof(sin); if (0 != getpeername(sockfd, (struct sockaddr [...]