netdb

netdb provides information about TCP/IP subsystem protocols and internet services, all this in (pure) Go. By default, it uses its built-in database instead of consulting /etc/protocols, /etc/services, and /etc/ethertypes. If needed, it can also consult these files, please see the examples in the documentation.

The built-in database has been auto-generated from the etc/protocols, etc/ethertypes, and etc/services files courtesy of the netbase package of the Debian project.

This netdb package does not even try to slavishly replicate the POSIX C API; instead, it attempts to be Go-ish. For instance, the C type servent has simply become the netdb.Service type in order to avoid arcane POSIX-rooted type names.

Please refer to the reference documentation for usage examples.

Acknowledgement

In some sense, this netdb package picks up the baton from the @dominikh/go-netdb package. However, it is not a fork but was written from scratch, considering (at least some of) the advice in issue #1 of the go-netdb package.

Copyright and License

netdb is Copyright 2021-24 Harald Albrecht, and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.