Port scanner in C

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Port scanner in C
Code: C
#include<stdio.h>
#include<sys/socket.h>
#include<sys/types.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<netdb.h>
int main(int argc,char **argv)
{
    int i,err,net;
    struct hostent *host;
    struct sockaddr_in sa;
    if(argc!=2)
    {
        printf("Error...Usage :%s ip-address",argv[0]);
        exit(0);
    }
    for(i=1;i<20000;i++)
    {
        sa.sin_family=AF_INET;
        sa.sin_port=htons(i);
        sa.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr(argv[1]);
        net=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
        err=connect(net,(struct sockaddr_in *)&sa,sizeof(sa));
        if(err>=0)
        {
            printf("\n%d is open",i);
        }
    }
    printf("\n");
 }

Go4Expert Founder
9Jun2008,17:10   #2
shabbir's Avatar
Can you explain how do I get the following header files. sys/socket.h
Go4Expert Member
9Jun2008,18:48   #3
madlex's Avatar
You are opening 20000 connections and you are closing none of them.
You should close connections in your for.

Code:
if(err>=0)
        {
            printf("\n%d is open",i);
        }
This is wrong. Values over zero may express an error, not a succesful connection.
You should really interpret this values and the print a correct output.
(hint: will return 0 on success).

You didn't specify the platform. For windows platform is necesary to call WSAStartup, to initialize the winsock library, otherwise you will receive errors from each call made to winsock's API.
Newbie Member
10Jun2008,19:05   #4
shukad33's Avatar
Quote:
Originally Posted by shabbir
Can you explain how do I get the following header files. sys/socket.h
Its a unix platform supported program. Hence it is assumed to be available in UNIX...