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18 .TH ARES_GET_SERVERS 3 "5 March 2010"
20 ares_get_servers \- Retrieve name servers from an initialized ares_channel
25 .B int ares_get_servers(ares_channel \fIchannel\fP, struct ares_addr_node **\fIservers\fP)
28 The \fBares_get_servers(3)\fP function retrieves name servers configuration
30 channel data identified by
32 as a linked list of ares_addr_node structs storing a pointer to the first
33 node at the address specified by
36 Function caller may traverse the returned name server linked list, or may use
37 it directly as suitable input for the \fBares_set_servers(3)\fP function, but
38 shall not shrink or extend the list on its own.
40 Each node of the name server linked list is stored in memory dynamically
41 allocated and managed by c-ares. It is the caller's responsibility to free
42 the resulting linked list, using \fBares_free_data(3)\fP , once the caller
43 does not need it any longer.
45 This function is capable of handling IPv4 and IPv6 name server
46 addresses simultaneously, rendering \fBares_save_options(3)\fP with
47 optmask \fBARES_OPT_SERVERS\fP functionally obsolete except for
48 IPv4-only name server usage.
51 .B ares_get_servers(3)
52 may return any of the following values:
55 The name servers configuration was successfuly retrieved
58 The memory was exhausted
61 The channel data identified by
65 .BR ares_set_servers (3),
66 .BR ares_init_options (3),
67 .BR ares_save_options(3)
69 ares_get_servers(3) was added in c-ares 1.7.1
71 Implementation of this function and associated library internals are based
72 on code, comments and feedback provided November and December of 2008 by
73 Daniel Stenberg, Gregor Jasny, Phil Blundell and Yang Tse, December 2009
74 by Cedric Bail, February 2010 by Jakub Hrozek. On March 2010 Yang Tse
75 shuffled all the bits and this function popped out.
77 Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
78 Copyright (C) 2008-2010 by Daniel Stenberg