ARES_PARSE_TXT_REPLY(3)ARES_PARSE_TXT_REPLY(3)NAMEares_parse_txt_reply - Parse a reply to a DNS query of type TXT
SYNOPSIS
#include <ares.h>
int ares_parse_txt_reply(const unsigned char* abuf, int alen,
struct ares_txt_reply **txt_out);
DESCRIPTION
The ares_parse_txt_reply function parses the response to a query of
type TXT into a linked list (one element per sub-string) of struct
ares_txt_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 txt_out. It is the caller's
responsibility to free the resulting txt_out structure when it is no
longer needed using the function ares_free_data
The structure ares_txt_reply contains the following fields:
struct ares_txt_reply {
struct ares_txt_reply *next;
unsigned int length;
unsigned char *txt;
};
RETURN VALUESares_parse_txt_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 ALSOares_query(3)ares_free_data(3)AUTHOR
Written by Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com>, on behalf of Red Hat, Inc
http://www.redhat.com
27 October 2009 ARES_PARSE_TXT_REPLY(3)
