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+/*
+** 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>
+#include <netdb.h>
+
+#define MYPORT "4950"    // the port users will be connecting to
+
+#define MAXBUFLEN 100
+
+// get sockaddr, IPv4 or IPv6:
+void *get_in_addr(struct sockaddr *sa)
+{
+    if (sa->sa_family == AF_INET) {
+        return &(((struct sockaddr_in*)sa)->sin_addr);
+    }
+
+    return &(((struct sockaddr_in6*)sa)->sin6_addr);
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    int sockfd;
+    struct addrinfo hints, *servinfo, *p;
+    int rv;
+    int numbytes;
+    struct sockaddr_storage their_addr;
+    char buf[MAXBUFLEN];
+    socklen_t addr_len;
+    char s[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN];
+
+    memset(&hints, 0, sizeof hints);
+    hints.ai_family = AF_INET6; // set to AF_INET to use IPv4
+    hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;
+    hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE; // use my IP
+
+    if ((rv = getaddrinfo(NULL, MYPORT, &hints, &servinfo)) != 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(rv));
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    // loop through all the results and bind to the first we can
+    for(p = servinfo; p != NULL; p = p->ai_next) {
+        if ((sockfd = socket(p->ai_family, p->ai_socktype,
+                p->ai_protocol)) == -1) {
+            perror("listener: socket");
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        if (bind(sockfd, p->ai_addr, p->ai_addrlen) == -1) {
+            close(sockfd);
+            perror("listener: bind");
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        break;
+    }
+
+    if (p == NULL) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "listener: failed to bind socket\n");
+        return 2;
+    }
+
+    freeaddrinfo(servinfo);
+
+    printf("listener: waiting to recvfrom...\n");
+
+    addr_len = sizeof their_addr;
+    if ((numbytes = recvfrom(sockfd, buf, MAXBUFLEN-1 , 0,
+        (struct sockaddr *)&their_addr, &addr_len)) == -1) {
+        perror("recvfrom");
+        exit(1);
+    }
+
+    printf("listener: got packet from %s\n",
+        inet_ntop(their_addr.ss_family,
+            get_in_addr((struct sockaddr *)&their_addr),
+            s, sizeof s));
+    printf("listener: packet is %d bytes long\n", numbytes);
+    buf[numbytes] = '\0';
+    printf("listener: packet contains \"%s\"\n", buf);
+
+    close(sockfd);
+
+    return 0;
+}