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

int inet_connect(char *host, int port) {

int s;
struct sockaddr_in addr;
struct hostent *hostp;

if(NULL == (hostp = gethostbyname(host))) {


fprintf(stderr, "Error looking up host %s.\n", host);
exit(2);

}

memset(&addr,0,sizeof(addr));
memcpy((char *)&addr.sin_addr,hostp->h_addr,hostp->h_length);
addr.sin_family = hostp->h_addrtype;
addr.sin_port = htons((u_short)port);


if((s=socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 6)) < 0) {


fprintf(stderr, "Error creating socket.\n");
exit(3);

}

if(connect(s, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0) {


close(s);
fprintf(stderr, "Error connecting to %s:%d\n", host, port);
exit(4);

}

return s;

/* This function returns a file descriptor suitable for read() and
write(). fdopen() will convert it into a FILE * for use with fgets(),
fprintf(), etc. */