Connect Function always succeeds

[santhosh pai]

Im beginner in winsock programming and i witnessed a peculiar behaviour of the connect function to establish a socket connection.The socket function succeeds even though theres no valid host in the network .For example theres no host with the ip 192.168.4.28 in our network but the connection to the call still succeeds and i tried giving ip address thats outside our network for example 1.1.1.1 and it still succeeded . Is there a reason or theres a bug in the api.i have posted the code below
#ifndef UNICODE
#define UNICODE
#endif

#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN

#include <winsock2.h>
#include <ws2tcpip.h>
#include <stdio.h>

// Need to link with Ws2_32.lib
#pragma comment(lib, "ws2_32.lib")

//char ip[16]={};

int main()
{
//----------------------
// Initialize Winsock
WSADATA wsaData;
int iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData);
if (iResult != NO_ERROR) {
wprintf(L"WSAStartup function failed with error: %d\n", iResult);
return 1;
}
//----------------------
// Create a SOCKET for connecting to server
SOCKET ConnectSocket;
ConnectSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);

if (ConnectSocket == INVALID_SOCKET) {
wprintf(L"socket function failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
WSACleanup();
return 1;
}
//----------------------
// The sockaddr_in structure specifies the address family,
// IP address, and port of the server to be connected to.
sockaddr_in clientService;
clientService.sin_family = AF_INET;
clientService.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("1.1.1.1");
clientService.sin_port = htons(80);

iResult = connect(ConnectSocket, (SOCKADDR *) & clientService, sizeof (clientService));
printf("The socket connect status %d ",iResult); // always 0 indicating success
if (iResult == SOCKET_ERROR) {
wprintf(L"connect function failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
iResult = closesocket(ConnectSocket);
if (iResult == SOCKET_ERROR)
wprintf(L"closesocket function failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
WSACleanup();
return 1;
}

wprintf(L"Connected to server.\n");

iResult = closesocket(ConnectSocket);
if (iResult == SOCKET_ERROR) {
printf("\n socket Connection failed ");
WSACleanup();
return 1;
}

WSACleanup();
return 0;
}

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