Re: how to determine peeraddr from quic connection

gustafn <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:59:51 -0700 (PDT)
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i have implemented this in my instance, and it works fine for my server. It 
needed some small tweaks on other places as well. so far, i have also added 
some documentation, but i am struggling still with the automated test cases 
to be able to make a PR. Not sure, i will get this working today.

gustafn schrieb am Freitag, 26. September 2025 um 14:20:20 UTC+2:

> Great! many thanks!
>
> Matt Caswell schrieb am Freitag, 26. September 2025 um 14:09:37 UTC+2:
>
>> I created a feature request for this here:
>>
>> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/28674
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Fri, 26 Sept 2025 at 12:57, gustafn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Such a call will be important for all, who a trying to implement a 
>>> full-featured HTTP/3 web server (e.g. access logs). 
>>>
>>> Maybe interesting for others: I've tried for now different alternatives. 
>>> The approach with recvfrom(.... MSG_PEEK...) does not work at all, it 
>>> returns an empty sockaddr when i call it before SSL_accept_connection() 
>>> and in pending conn callback. Similarly, my attempts to 
>>> use SSL_get_rbio(ssl) and to get the peer from the bio failed (always NULL 
>>> addresses) for these call sites. Maybe an approach creating my own UDP 
>>> listening socket and plumbing the data to OpenSSL using BIO_s_dgram_pair 
>>> might help, although, this looks like a crazy overhead to me just to get 
>>> the peer addr.
>>>
>>> In case, someone has more ideas, please let me know.
>>> Alexandr Nedvedicky schrieb am Donnerstag, 25. September 2025 um 
>>> 18:40:37 UTC+2:
>>>
>>>> Hello, 
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid you are right. There is currently no way to find out 
>>>> remote peer's address for QUIC connection. 
>>>>
>>>> > Â Â Â int SSL_get_peer_addr(SSL *ssl, BIO_ADDR *peer_addr); 
>>>>
>>>> I think SSL_get_peer_addr() above would be the OpenSSL way 
>>>> to implement it. 
>>>>
>>>> thanks and 
>>>> regards 
>>>> sashan 
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 09:01:02AM -0700, gustafn wrote: 
>>>> > when accepting a new quic connection 
>>>> > Â Â Â Â SSL Â Â Â Â Â Â *conn = 
>>>> > SSL_accept_connection(listener_ssl, 0); 
>>>> > how can i determine the peer address (sockaddr) for conn? 
>>>> > It would be nice to have something like 
>>>> >    int SSL_get_peer_addr(SSL *ssl, 
>>>> > 
>>>> >         struct sockaddr *restrict addr,  
>>>> > 
>>>> > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â socklen_t *restrict addrlen); 
>>>> > or 
>>>> > Â Â Â int SSL_get_peer_addr(SSL *ssl, BIO_ADDR *peer_addr); 
>>>> > using recvfrom(.... MSG_PEEK...) can't be the solution. 
>>>> > I have the feeling, i have missed something essential in the 
>>>> > documentation 
>>>> > All the best -g 
>>>> > 
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