Sockets sendto() returning EINVAL

Question

I'm trying to send a UDP packet in C. I have the following sendto():

char* msg = "Hello";

//ret is the return value of getaddrinfo, the address is AF_INET (IPv4)
//and the sock_type is SOCK_DGRAM (UDP)
struct sockaddr_in *ip = (struct sockaddr_in *)ret->ai_addr;

if ((sendto(sock, msg, strlen(msg), 0, (struct sockaddr *)ip, 
                sizeof(struct sockaddr *))) != -1) {
    printf("msg sent successfully");
} else {
    printf("Error sending msg: %s\n", strerror(errno));
}

However, it's returning an error saying there's an invalid argument. Looking at the manpage I can't really tell which one is the invalid argument. Any ideas?

EDIT: Here's all my code

#include <stdio.h>  
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
    /*
     * Help the technically challenged among us who have no idea
     * what on God's green Earth they are doing with this thing.
    */
    if (argc != 2) {
        printf("usage: routetracer <ip address or hostname>\n");
        return -1;
    }

    /*
     * hints- parameters for return value of getaddrinfo
     * ret- return value of getaddrinfo
     */
    struct addrinfo hints, *ret;
    int status;
    char ipv4[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];
    int ttl = 0;
    char* msg = "Hello";
    int last_hop = 0;

    //define what we want from getaddrinfo
    memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
    hints.ai_family = AF_INET; //IPv4
    hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM; //UDP packets

    //call getaddrinfo to fill ret, w/ error chk
    if ((status = getaddrinfo(argv[1], NULL, &hints, &ret)) != 0) {
        printf("getaddrinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(status));
        return -1;
    }

    //extract IPv4 address from ret
    struct sockaddr_in* ip = (struct sockaddr_in *)ret->ai_addr;

    //convert address from pure numbers to something easier to read
    inet_ntop(ret->ai_family, &(ip->sin_addr), ipv4, INET_ADDRSTRLEN);   

    //kindly inform the user of which hostname they are connecting to
    printf("Route for: %s\n", ipv4);

    //create a socket
    int sock = socket(ret->ai_family, ret->ai_socktype, ret->ai_protocol);

    ttl = 1;
    if ((setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_IP, IP_TTL, &ttl, sizeof(ttl))) != -1) {
        printf("TTL set successfully\n");
    } else {
        printf("Error setting TTL: %s\n", strerror(errno));
    }

    if ((sendto(sock, msg, strlen(msg), 0, ret->ai_addr,
                    ret->ai_addrlen)) != -1) {
        printf("msg sent successfully");
    } else {
      printf("Error sending msg: %s\n", strerror(errno));
    }
    return 0;
}

Running the program gives the following output:

$ ./routetracer www.google.com
Route for: 173.194.46.82
TTL set successfully
Error sending msg: Invalid argument

Answer 1

Try:

if ((sendto(sock, msg, strlen(msg), 0, (struct sockaddr *)ip, 
                sizeof(struct sockaddr_in))) != -1) {

You're giving it the size of a pointer, not the size of the structure. And it needs to be the specific structure type, not the generic type.