Adding a winsock to my project I ran into a problem. I can connect to my friends computer at school from mine but any outside destination I recieve a memory error.
here is my connect:
[code]
void wSockConnect()
{
WORD wVersion;
WSADATA wsData;

/* Initialize Socket */
wVersion = MAKEWORD(1,1);
WSAStartup(wVersion, &wsData);

LPHOSTENT hostData;
in_addr ipHost;
char* hostText[16];

/* read config here */
//hostText[16] = "168.156.223.149";

ipHost.s_addr = inet_addr("uswest.battle.net");
hostData = gethostbyaddr((const char FAR*)&ipHost, sizeof (in_addr), AF_INET);

/* make socket */
wSock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);

/* fill sockaddr_in with address info */
SOCKADDR_IN hostInfo;

hostInfo.sin_family = AF_INET;

hostInfo.sin_addr = *((LPIN_ADDR)*hostData->h_addr_list);

hostInfo.sin_port = htons(6112);
int ret = connect(wSock, (LPSOCKADDR)&hostInfo, sizeof(sockaddr));
}
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Any ideas? I've tried uswest.battle.net 6112, www.google.com 80. Only success was my friends server he ran on the network. =\

Sounds like the network is blocking your program's access.  It's a fairly common system firewalls use to block trojans/spyware/adware from downloading other stuff.

inet_addr takes in a Ipv4 dotted address, not a hostname.  If you were to check what inet_addr was returning, you would see it would probably be equal to INADDR_NONE

Don't you use gethostbyname(const char*) to resolve host names to IP host entries?

Also, it's worth noting that inet_addr is deprecated and you should instead use inet_pton (which itself supersedes inet_aton, which superseded inet_addr).

I've tried using the actual ip of the battle.net Server also and no connection. IE I tried inet_pton and it's giving me an undeclared error. All help is appreciated!

[quote author=Spilled[DW] link=topic=11994.msg117891#msg117891 date=1119975227]
I've tried using the actual ip of the battle.net Server also and no connection. IE I tried inet_pton and it's giving me an undeclared error. All help is appreciated!
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What's giving you an undeclared error?

[quote author=MyndFyre link=topic=11994.msg117946#msg117946 date=1119993680]
[quote author=Spilled[DW] link=topic=11994.msg117891#msg117891 date=1119975227]
I've tried using the actual ip of the battle.net Server also and no connection. IE I tried inet_pton and it's giving me an undeclared error. All help is appreciated!
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What's giving you an undeclared error?
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inet_pton. i tried replacing inet_addr with inet_pton like kp suggested and it said that was undeclared.

I'm pretty sure inet_aton and inet_pton are not used on Windows.  inet_addr should be fine as long as you're not dealing with Ipv6 addresses

[quote author=UserLoser link=topic=11994.msg118078#msg118078 date=1120080370]inet_addr should be fine as long as you're not dealing with Ipv6 addresses[/quote]

True, assuming he also does his own error handling.  Certain versions of ping are unable to ping 255.255.255.255, due to the design flaw in inet_addr.  The solution is to upgrade to a ping which uses inet_aton or inet_pton.  Unfortunately, you're correct that Microsoft Windows has neither of those calls, thus burdening the application programmer with working around the shortcomings of inet_addr.

Problem Solved -- sat down at school for 3 hours studying all the winsock sources on google i could find :)
thanks for all your help once again guys :)