tordam

A library for peer discovery inside the Tor network
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net.go (1291B)


      1 // Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Ivan Jelincic <parazyd@dyne.org>
      2 //
      3 // This file is part of tordam
      4 //
      5 // This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
      6 // it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
      7 // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
      8 // (at your option) any later version.
      9 //
     10 // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     11 // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     12 // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
     13 // GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
     14 //
     15 // You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
     16 // along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
     17 
     18 package tordam
     19 
     20 import "net"
     21 
     22 // GetAvailableListener is a helper function to return a *net.TCPAddr on some
     23 // port that is available for listening on the system. It uses the :0 port
     24 // which the kernel utilizes to return a random available port.
     25 func GetAvailableListener() (*net.TCPAddr, error) {
     26 	addr, err := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp4", "localhost:0")
     27 	if err != nil {
     28 		return nil, err
     29 	}
     30 
     31 	l, err := net.ListenTCP("tcp4", addr)
     32 	if err != nil {
     33 		return nil, err
     34 	}
     35 	defer l.Close()
     36 	return l.Addr().(*net.TCPAddr), nil
     37 }