ARES_PARSE_NS_REPLY
Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 10 February 2007
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NAME
ares_parse_ns_reply - Parse a reply to a DNS query of type NS into a hostent
SYNOPSIS
#include <ares.h>
int ares_parse_ns_reply(const unsigned char *abuf, int alen,
struct hostent **host);
DESCRIPTION
The
ares_parse_ns_reply
function parses the response to a query of type NS into a
struct hostent.
The parameters
abuf
and
alen
give the contents of the response. The result is stored in allocated
memory and a pointer to it stored into the variable pointed to by
host.
The nameservers are stored into the
aliases
field of the
host
structure.
It is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting host structure
using
ares_free_hostent(3)
when it is no longer needed.
RETURN VALUES
ares_parse_ns_reply
can return any of the following values:
- ARES_SUCCESS
-
The response was successfully parsed.
- ARES_EBADRESP
-
The response was malformatted.
- ARES_ENODATA
-
The response did not contain an answer to the query.
- ARES_ENOMEM
-
Memory was exhausted.
SEE ALSO
ares_query(3),
ares_free_hostent(3)
AUTHOR
Written by Vlad Dinulescu <
vlad.dinulescu@avira.com>, on behalf of AVIRA Gmbh
http://www.avira.com