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.TH ARES_PARSE_NS_REPLY 3 "10 February 2007"

.SH NAME

ares_parse_ns_reply \- Parse a reply to a DNS query of type NS into a hostent

.SH SYNOPSIS

.nf

.B #include <ares.h>

.PP

.B int ares_parse_ns_reply(const unsigned char *\fIabuf\fP, int \fIalen\fP,

.B 	struct hostent **\fIhost\fP);

.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.B ares_parse_ns_reply

function parses the response to a query of type NS into a

.BR "struct hostent" .

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 host . 

The nameservers are stored into the 

.BR aliases 

field of the 

.IR host 

structure. 

It is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting host structure

using

.BR ares_free_hostent (3)

when it is no longer needed.

.SH RETURN VALUES

.B ares_parse_ns_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 SEE ALSO

.BR ares_query (3),

.BR ares_free_hostent (3)

.SH AUTHOR

Written by Vlad Dinulescu <vlad.dinulescu@avira.com>, on behalf of AVIRA Gmbh http://www.avira.com