Problems with bind and UDP server

[Anonymous <cripto at ecn dot org>]

Hello,

I saw these series of posts on UDP - was there a conclusion to them?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00701.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00703.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00705.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00706.html

I compile and run net-snmp under cygwin (I have net-snmp 5.3.0.1).
The server snmpd by default uses UDP port 161. I now have the most
recent cygwin DLL and the server snmpd seems no longer to work.

I think I tracked down the problem to the bind command. For a 
"very simple test" I used Beej's socket programming examples.
I give the listings at the end of the message.

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/htmlsingle/bgnet.html#listen

The listener program works fine on regular Linux and with older
cygwin DLLs ..... but under the latest it returns an error.
Has something changed?

Many Thanks,

    Mark.

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listener.c
====
/*
** listener.c -- a datagram sockets "server" demo
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

#define MYPORT 4950     // the port users will be connecting to

#define MAXBUFLEN 100

int main(void)
{
        int sockfd;
        struct sockaddr_in my_addr;     // my address information
        struct sockaddr_in their_addr; // connector's address information
        socklen_t addr_len;
        int numbytes;
        char buf[MAXBUFLEN];

        if ((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) == -1) {
                perror("socket");
                exit(1);
        }

        my_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;            // host byte order
        my_addr.sin_port = htons(MYPORT);        // short, network byte order
        my_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; // automatically fill with my IP
        memset(&(my_addr.sin_zero), '\0', 8); // zero the rest of the struct

        if (bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&my_addr,
                sizeof(struct sockaddr)) == -1) {
                perror("bind");
                exit(1);
        }

        addr_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr);
        if ((numbytes = recvfrom(sockfd, buf, MAXBUFLEN-1 , 0,
                (struct sockaddr *)&their_addr, &addr_len)) == -1) {
                perror("recvfrom");
                exit(1);
        }

        printf("got packet from %s\n",inet_ntoa(their_addr.sin_addr));
        printf("packet is %d bytes long\n",numbytes);
        buf[numbytes] = '\0';
        printf("packet contains \"%s\"\n",buf);

        close(sockfd);

        return 0;
}
====

talker.c

====
/*
** talker.c -- a datagram "client" demo
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netdb.h>

#define SERVERPORT 4950 // the port users will be connecting to

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int sockfd;
        struct sockaddr_in their_addr; // connector's address information
        struct hostent *he;
        int numbytes;

        if (argc != 3) {
                fprintf(stderr,"usage: talker hostname message\n");
                exit(1);
        }

        if ((he=gethostbyname(argv[1])) == NULL) {  // get the host info
                perror("gethostbyname");
                exit(1);
        }

        if ((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) == -1) {
                perror("socket");
                exit(1);
        }

        their_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;         // host byte order
        their_addr.sin_port = htons(SERVERPORT); // short, network byte order
        their_addr.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr *)he->h_addr);
        memset(&(their_addr.sin_zero), '\0', 8);  // zero the rest of the struct

        if ((numbytes = sendto(sockfd, argv[2], strlen(argv[2]), 0,
                         (struct sockaddr *)&their_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr))) == -1) {
                perror("sendto");
                exit(1);
        }

        printf("sent %d bytes to %s\n", numbytes, inet_ntoa(their_addr.sin_addr));

        close(sockfd);

        return 0;
}



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