I have the following two sets of code: Windows #undef UNICODE #include <winsock2.h> #include <ws2tcpip.h> #include <stdio.h> // link with Ws2_32.lib #pragma comment (lib, "Ws2_32.lib") int __cdecl main(int argc, char **argv) { //----------------------------------------- // Declare and initialize variables WSADATA wsaData; int iResult; INT iRetval; DWORD dwRetval; argv[1] = "www.google.com"; argv[2] = "80"; int i = 1; struct addrinfo *result = NULL; struct addrinfo *ptr = NULL; struct addrinfo hints; struct sockaddr_in *sockaddr_ipv4; // struct sockaddr_in6 *sockaddr_ipv6; LPSOCKADDR sockaddr_ip; char ipstringbuffer[46]; DWORD ipbufferlength = 46; /* // Validate the parameters if (argc != 3) { printf("usage: %s <hostname> <servicename>\n", argv[0]); printf("getaddrinfo provides protocol-independent translation\n"); printf(" from an ANSI host name to an IP address\n"); printf("%s example usage\n", argv[0]); printf(" %s www.contoso.com 0\n", argv[0]); return 1; } */ // Initialize Winsock iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData); if (iResult != 0) { printf("WSAStartup failed: %d\n", iResult); return 1; } //-------------------------------- // Setup the hints address info structure // which is passed to the getaddrinfo() function ZeroMemory( &hints, sizeof(hints) ); hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC; hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM; // hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP; printf("Calling getaddrinfo with following parameters:\n"); printf("\tnodename = %s\n", argv[1]); printf("\tservname (or port) = %s\n\n", argv[2]); //-------------------------------- // Call getaddrinfo(). If the call succeeds, // the result variable will hold a linked list // of addrinfo structures containing response // information dwRetval = getaddrinfo(argv[1], argv[2], &hints, &result); if ( dwRetval != 0 ) { printf("getaddrinfo failed with error: %d\n", dwRetval); WSACleanup(); return 1; } printf("getaddrinfo returned success\n"); // Retrieve each address and print out the hex bytes for(ptr=result; ptr != NULL ;ptr=ptr->ai_next) { printf("getaddrinfo response %d\n", i++); printf("\tFlags: 0x%x\n", ptr->ai_flags); printf("\tFamily: "); switch (ptr->ai_family) { case AF_UNSPEC: printf("Unspecified\n"); break; case AF_INET: printf("AF_INET (IPv4)\n"); sockaddr_ipv4 = (struct sockaddr_in *) ptr->ai_addr; printf("\tIPv4 address %s\n", inet_ntoa(sockaddr_ipv4->sin_addr) ); break; case AF_INET6: printf("AF_INET6 (IPv6)\n"); // the InetNtop function is available on Windows Vista and later // sockaddr_ipv6 = (struct sockaddr_in6 *) ptr->ai_addr; // printf("\tIPv6 address %s\n", // InetNtop(AF_INET6, &sockaddr_ipv6->sin6_addr, ipstringbuffer, 46) ); // We use WSAAddressToString since it is supported on Windows XP and later sockaddr_ip = (LPSOCKADDR) ptr->ai_addr; // The buffer length is changed by each call to WSAAddresstoString // So we need to set it for each iteration through the loop for safety ipbufferlength = 46; iRetval = WSAAddressToString(sockaddr_ip, (DWORD) ptr->ai_addrlen, NULL, ipstringbuffer, &ipbufferlength ); if (iRetval) printf("WSAAddressToString failed with %u\n", WSAGetLastError() ); else printf("\tIPv6 address %s\n", ipstringbuffer); break; case AF_NETBIOS: printf("AF_NETBIOS (NetBIOS)\n"); break; default: printf("Other %ld\n", ptr->ai_family); break; } printf("\tSocket type: "); switch (ptr->ai_socktype) { case 0: printf("Unspecified\n"); break; case SOCK_STREAM: printf("SOCK_STREAM (stream)\n"); break; case SOCK_DGRAM: printf("SOCK_DGRAM (datagram) \n"); break; case SOCK_RAW: printf("SOCK_RAW (raw) \n"); break; case SOCK_RDM: printf("SOCK_RDM (reliable message datagram)\n"); break; case SOCK_SEQPACKET: printf("SOCK_SEQPACKET (pseudo-stream packet)\n"); break; default: printf("Other %ld\n", ptr->ai_socktype); break; } printf("\tProtocol: "); switch (ptr->ai_protocol) { case 0: printf("Unspecified\n"); break; case IPPROTO_TCP: printf("IPPROTO_TCP (TCP)\n"); break; case IPPROTO_UDP: printf("IPPROTO_UDP (UDP) \n"); break; default: printf("Other %ld\n", ptr->ai_protocol); break; } printf("\tLength of this sockaddr: %d\n", ptr->ai_addrlen); printf("\tCanonical name: %s\n", ptr->ai_canonname); } freeaddrinfo(result); WSACleanup(); return 0; } Ubuntu /* ** 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_UNSPEC; // set to AF_INET to force 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; } When I attempt www.google.com, I don't get the ipv6 socket returned on Windows - why is this? Outputs: (ubuntu) caleb@ub1:~/Documents/dev/cs438/mp0/MP0$ ./a.out www.google.com IP addresses for www.google.com: IPv4: 74.125.228.115 IPv4: 74.125.228.116 IPv4: 74.125.228.112 IPv4: 74.125.228.113 IPv4: 74.125.228.114 IPv6: 2607:f8b0:4004:803::1010 Outputs: (win) Calling getaddrinfo with following parameters: nodename = www.google.com servname (or port) = 80 getaddrinfo returned success getaddrinfo response 1 Flags: 0x0 Family: AF_INET (IPv4) IPv4 address 74.125.228.114 Socket type: SOCK_STREAM (stream) Protocol: Unspecified Length of this sockaddr: 16 Canonical name: (null) getaddrinfo response 2 Flags: 0x0 Family: AF_INET (IPv4) IPv4 address 74.125.228.115 Socket type: SOCK_STREAM (stream) Protocol: Unspecified Length of this sockaddr: 16 Canonical name: (null) getaddrinfo response 3 Flags: 0x0 Family: AF_INET (IPv4) IPv4 address 74.125.228.116 Socket type: SOCK_STREAM (stream) Protocol: Unspecified Length of this sockaddr: 16 Canonical name: (null) getaddrinfo response 4 Flags: 0x0 Family: AF_INET (IPv4) IPv4 address 74.125.228.112 Socket type: SOCK_STREAM (stream) Protocol: Unspecified Length of this sockaddr: 16 Canonical name: (null) getaddrinfo response 5 Flags: 0x0 Family: AF_INET (IPv4) IPv4 address 74.125.228.113 Socket type: SOCK_STREAM (stream) Protocol: Unspecified Length of this sockaddr: 16 Canonical name: (null)