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+.\"
+.\" Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
+.\" Copyright (C) 2008-2010 by Daniel Stenberg
+.\"
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+.TH ARES_GET_SERVERS 3 "5 March 2010"
+.SH NAME
+ares_get_servers \- Retrieve name servers from an initialized ares_channel
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <ares.h>
+.PP
+.B int ares_get_servers(ares_channel \fIchannel\fP, struct ares_addr_node **\fIservers\fP)
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The \fBares_get_servers(3)\fP function retrieves name servers configuration
+from the
+channel data identified by
+.IR channel ,
+as a linked list of ares_addr_node structs storing a pointer to the first
+node at the address specified by
+.IR servers .
+
+Function caller may traverse the returned name server linked list, or may use
+it directly as suitable input for the \fBares_set_servers(3)\fP function, but
+shall not shrink or extend the list on its own.
+
+Each node of the name server linked list is stored in memory dynamically
+allocated and managed by c-ares. It is the caller's responsibility to free
+the resulting linked list, using \fBares_free_data(3)\fP , once the caller
+does not need it any longer.
+
+This function is capable of handling IPv4 and IPv6 name server
+addresses simultaneously, rendering \fBares_save_options(3)\fP with
+optmask \fBARES_OPT_SERVERS\fP functionally obsolete except for
+IPv4-only name server usage.
+
+.SH RETURN VALUES
+.B ares_get_servers(3)
+may return any of the following values:
+.TP 15
+.B ARES_SUCCESS
+The name servers configuration was successfuly retrieved
+.TP 15
+.B ARES_ENOMEM
+The memory was exhausted
+.TP 15
+.B ARES_ENODATA
+The channel data identified by 
+.IR channel
+was invalid.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR ares_set_servers (3),
+.BR ares_init_options (3),
+.BR ares_save_options(3)
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+ares_get_servers(3) was added in c-ares 1.7.1
+.SH AUTHOR
+Implementation of this function and associated library internals are based
+on code, comments and feedback provided in November and December of 2008 by
+Daniel Stenberg, Gregor Jasny, Phil Blundell and Yang Tse, December 2009
+by Cedric Bail, February 2010 by Jakub Hrozek. On March 2010 Yang Tse
+shuffled all the bits and this function popped out.
+.br
+Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
+.br
+Copyright (C) 2008-2010 by Daniel Stenberg