I support an answer on StackOverflow on how to get active IP addresses on iOS devices (code below). Someone updated it to detect if the device is on a VPN by testing for 'utun0' and/or 'utun1', but the heuristic failed as it seems those are used for other purposes. Is there a way to detect a primary VPN connection?
#include <ifaddrs.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#define IOS_CELLULAR @"pdp_ip0"
#define IOS_WIFI @"en0"
// #define IOS_VPN @"utun0"
#define IP_ADDR_IPv4 @"ipv4"
#define IP_ADDR_IPv6 @"ipv6"
- (NSString *)getIPAddress:(BOOL)preferIPv4
{
NSArray *searchArray preferIPv4 ?
@[ /IOS_VPN @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv4, IOS_VPN @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv6,*/ IOS_WIFI @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv4, IOS_WIFI @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv6, IOS_CELLULAR @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv4, IOS_CELLULAR @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv6 ] :
@[ /IOS_VPN @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv6, IOS_VPN @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv4,*/ IOS_WIFI @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv6, IOS_WIFI @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv4, IOS_CELLULAR @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv6, IOS_CELLULAR @"/" IP_ADDR_IPv4 ] ;
NSDictionary *addresses [self getIPAddresses];
NSLog(@"addresses: %@", addresses);
__block NSString *address;
[searchArray enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(NSString *key, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop)
{
address addresses[key];
if(address) *stop YES;
} ];
return address ? address : @"0.0.0.0";
}
- (NSDictionary *)getIPAddresses
{
NSMutableDictionary *addresses [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:8];
struct ifaddrs *interfaces;
if(!getifaddrs(&interfaces)) {
struct ifaddrs *interface;
for(interface interfaces; interface; interface interface->ifa_next) {
if(!(interface->ifa_flags & IFF_UP) / || (interface->ifa_flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) */ ) {
continue; /
}
const struct sockaddr_in *addr (const struct sockaddr_in*)interface->ifa_addr;
char addrBuf[ MAX(INET_ADDRSTRLEN, INET6_ADDRSTRLEN) ];
if(addr && (addr->sin_family AF_INET || addr->sin_family AF_INET6)) {
NSString *name [NSString stringWithUTF8String:interface->ifa_name];
NSString *type;
if(addr->sin_family AF_INET) {
if(inet_ntop(AF_INET, &addr->sin_addr, addrBuf, INET_ADDRSTRLEN)) {
type IP_ADDR_IPv4;
}
} else {
const struct sockaddr_in6 *addr6 (const struct sockaddr_in6*)interface->ifa_addr;
if(inet_ntop(AF_INET6, &addr6->sin6_addr, addrBuf, INET6_ADDRSTRLEN)) {
type IP_ADDR_IPv6;
}
}
if(type) {
NSString *key [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@", name, type];
addresses[key] [NSString stringWithUTF8String:addrBuf];
}
}
}
freeifaddrs(interfaces);
}
return [addresses count] ? addresses : nil;
}