ares_parse_srv_reply(3) Library Functions Manual ares_parse_srv_reply(3)
NAME
ares_parse_srv_reply - Parse a reply to a DNS query of type SRV
SYNOPSIS
#include <ares.h>
int ares_parse_srv_reply(const unsigned char* abuf, int alen,
struct ares_srv_reply** srv_out);
DESCRIPTION
The ares_parse_srv_reply function parses the response to a query of
type SRV into a linked list of struct ares_srv_reply 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 srv_out. It is the caller's responsibility to free the
resulting srv_out structure when it is no longer needed using the
function ares_free_data(3).
The structure ares_srv_reply contains the following fields:
struct ares_srv_reply {
struct ares_srv_reply *next;
unsigned short weight;
unsigned short priority;
unsigned short port;
char *host;
};
RETURN VALUES
ares_parse_srv_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.
AVAILABILITY
This function was first introduced in c-ares version 1.7.0.
SEE ALSO
ares_query(3) ares_free_data(3)
4 August 2009 ares_parse_srv_reply(3)
c-ares 1.30.0 - Generated Thu Jun 13 11:50:41 CDT 2024