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
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)
AUTHOR
Written by Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek [at] redhat.com>, on behalf of Red Hat, Inc http://www.redhat.com