Ok first of all I like to mention what im doing is completely ethical and yes I am port scanning.
The program runs fine when the port is open but when I get to a closed socket the program halts for a very long time because there is no time-out clause. Below is the following code
int main(){
int err, net;
struct hostent *host;
struct sockaddr_in sa;
sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
sa.sin_port = htons(xxxx);
sa.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");
net = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
err = connect(net, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof(sa));
if(err >= 0){ cout << "Port is Open"; }
else { cout << "Port is Closed"; }
}
I found this on stack overflow but it just doesn't make sense to me using a select() command.
Question is can we make the connect() function timeout so we dont wait a year for it to come back with an error?
The easiest is to setup an alarm
and have connect
be interrupted with a signal (see UNP 14.2):
signal( SIGALRM, connect_alarm ); /* connect_alarm is you signal handler */
alarm( secs ); /* secs is your timeout in seconds */
if ( connect( fs, addr, addrlen ) < 0 )
{
if ( errno == EINTR ) /* timeout */
...
}
alarm( 0 ); /* cancel alarm */
Though using select
is not much harder :)
You might want to learn about raw sockets too.
If you're dead-set on using blocking IO to get this done, you should investigate the setsockopt() call, specifically the SO_SNDTIMEO flag (or other flags, depending on your OS).
Be forewarned these flags are not reliable/portable and may be implemented differently on different platforms or different versions of a given platform.
The traditional/best way to do this is via the nonblocking approach which uses select(). In the event you're new to sockets, one of the very best books is TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols. It's at Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633469
RudeSocket Solved the Problem
I found a lib file that is tested in linux Fedora (Not Sure about Windows) that gives me the option of timeout. Below you can find a very simple Example.
#include <rude/socket.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
using namespace rude;
Socket soc;
soc.setTimeout(30, 5);
//Try connecting
if (soc.connect("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", 80)){
cout << "Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on Port " << 80 << "\n";
}
//connections Failed
else{
cout << "Timeout to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on Port " << 80 << "\n";
}
soc.close();
Here is a link to the DevSite
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