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

That long number is the IP address, in integer form (an IP address is just an integer, after all; it's just easier for people to use when we split the octets apart and put it into dot notation).

You can use inet_ntoa to convert the integer value to standard dot notation.