Create multiple listening sockets - c++

Question

I'm using winsocks and I am coding an IDS/Honeypot, this is just a small section of it, because at the moment I want the server to listen on multiple sockets (7) and accept the connections, but I've tried to dynamically create the sockets with an array (and the listener etc) but I am still having trouble - I've tried it multiple ways but so far, all I've managed to do is get it working successfully on ONE socket, and LISTEN to all sockets, but not accept them.
So, this was my last attempt but not sure, maybe I need to use threads or declare the sockets differently?
So far, in this small test code, I want:
Initialize server
listen on all 7 ports (1111,2222 ...etc)
Accept an incoming connection on ANY of them
display both messages on client/server
drop the connection
and continue
It's a little sloppy I know, but here is the code so far and I think you can see where I am going with it:
#include <iostream>
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <string>
#pragma comment(lib, "ws2_32.lib")
int main()
{
std::cout<<"Honeypot server [test #1] by Dreamwalker"<<std::endl;
WSADATA wsa;
SOCKET s[7] , new_socket[7];
struct sockaddr_in server , client;
int c, port[7] = {1111,2222,3333,4444,5555,6666,7777};
char *message;
std::cout<<"\nInitialising Winsock and other components...";
if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2),&wsa) != 0)
{
std::cout<<"Failed. Error Code :"<<WSAGetLastError()<<std::endl;
return 1;
}
//!IMPORTANT: create multiple new sockets on different ports
int i = 0;
for( i = 0; i < 7; i++)
{
//Create socket
if((s[i] = socket(AF_INET , SOCK_STREAM , 0 )) == INVALID_SOCKET)
{
std::cout<<"Could not create socket : "<< WSAGetLastError()<<std::endl;
}
//Prepare the sockaddr_in structure
server.sin_family = AF_INET;
server.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
server.sin_port = htons( port[i] );
//Bind
if( bind(s[i] ,(struct sockaddr *)&server , sizeof(server)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
std::cout<<"Bind failed with error code : "<< WSAGetLastError()<<std::endl;
}
/*!ALL CREATION CHECKING DONE, now create multiple sockets on the server
and listen for connections*/
c = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
listen(s[i] , SOMAXCONN);
}
///ALL INITIALIZED
std::cout<<"DONE!"<<std::endl;
//Listen/accept incoming connections
std::cout<<"Now listening for connections"<<std::endl;
new_socket[i] = accept(s[i] , (struct sockaddr *)&client, &c);
if (new_socket[i] == INVALID_SOCKET)
{
std::cout<<"accept failed with error code : "<< WSAGetLastError()<<std::endl;
}
//Accepted connection
else{
std::cout<<"Someone has connected to this machine!"<<std::endl;
message = "Hello Client , I have received your connection.\n";
send(new_socket[i] , message , strlen(message) , 0);
closesocket(s[i]);
}
std::cout<<"FINISHED"<<std::endl;
WSACleanup();
getchar();
return 0;
}
And now it's throwing a runtime error as well:
WSAENOTSOCK
10038
Socket operation on nonsocket.
An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. Either the socket handle parameter did not reference a valid socket,
or for select, a member of an fd_set was not valid.
Which (including debugging) indicates that the socket isn't declared properly when creating on an array, advice?

Answer 1

You code to create/bind/listen is all good. Then:
new_socket[i] = accept(s[i] , (struct sockaddr *)&client, &c);
Firstly, by the time this runs you're outside the loop, and i is 7 which is past the end of the array of sockets, which is why you get the not-a-socket error.
Secondly, accept() is a blocking call, so you can't just call accept() on all the sockets from the same thread the way you did for listen. You need to either have a separate thread block in accept() for each of the ports, or find out which one has a client connection attempt in progress using e.g. select (or epoll - does Windows have that?), then accept() a client on that specific socket (but then you've still got to either create a thread to handle the client read/recvs and write/sends or use select/epoll to find out when there's input ready to read, or more space in output buffers for transmission). There's also a race condition to be wary of if you use select/epoll - a listening socket might signal readiness for accepting a client connection, but by the time you call accept() that connection attempt's failed and forgotten, then if the listening socket hasn't been set to non-blocking mode it'll hang there waiting for another client to connect to that specific socket. IMHO, this is a case where threading is actually easier.
I think it's more "Windowsy" to use IO Completion Ports (you might want to Google), but AFAIK they're totally unportable. Winsock's not an exact match for BSD sockets, but the porting or dual-support effort's small.