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authorMarko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>2012-06-15 13:29:03 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2012-06-15 13:32:48 +0200
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SOA parser added
I need to do SOA queries, so here is a parser for them. - ares_soa_reply: new struct - ares_malloc_data/ares_free_soa: ARES_DATATYPE_SOA_REPLY - ares_parse_soa_reply: actual function
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+.\"
+.\" Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
+.\"
+.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+.\" software and its documentation for any purpose and without
+.\" fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
+.\" notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
+.\" notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
+.\" documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in
+.\" advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
+.\" software without specific, written prior permission.
+.\" M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of
+.\" this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
+.\" without express or implied warranty.
+.\"
+.TH ARES_PARSE_SOA_REPLY 3 "29 May 2012"
+.SH NAME
+ares_parse_soa_reply \- Parse a reply to a DNS query of type SOA
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <ares.h>
+.PP
+.B int ares_parse_soa_reply(const unsigned char* \fIabuf\fP, int \fIalen\fP,
+.B struct ares_soa_reply** \fIsoa_out\fP);
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B ares_parse_soa_reply
+function parses the response to a query of type SOA into a
+.IR struct\ ares_soa_reply .
+The parameters
+.I abuf
+and
+.I 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
+.IR soa_out .
+It is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting
+.IR soa_out
+structure when it is no longer needed using the function
+.B ares_free_data
+.PP
+The structure
+.I ares_soa_reply
+contains the following fields:
+.sp
+.in +4n
+.nf
+struct ares_soa_reply {
+ char *nsname;
+ char *hostmaster;
+ unsigned int serial;
+ unsigned int refresh;
+ unsigned int retry;
+ unsigned int expire;
+ unsigned int minttl;
+};
+.fi
+.in
+.PP
+.SH RETURN VALUES
+.B ares_parse_soa_reply
+can return any of the following values:
+.TP 15
+.B ARES_SUCCESS
+The response was successfully parsed.
+.TP 15
+.B ARES_EBADRESP
+The response was malformatted.
+.TP 15
+.B ARES_ENODATA
+The response did not contain an answer to the query.
+.TP 15
+.B ARES_ENOMEM
+Memory was exhausted.
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+This function was first introduced in c-ares version 1.9.0.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR ares_query (3)
+.BR ares_free_data (3)