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16 .TH ARES_PARSE_A_REPLY 3 "25 July 1998"
18 ares_parse_a_reply \- Parse a reply to a DNS query of type A
23 .B int ares_parse_a_reply(const unsigned char *\fIabuf\fP, int \fIalen\fP,
24 .B struct hostent **\fIhost\fP,
25 .B struct ares_addrttl *\fIaddrttls\fB, int *\fInaddrttls\fB);
30 function parses the response to a query of type A into a
33 .BR "struct ares_addrttls" .
38 give the contents of the response. The result is stored in allocated
39 memory and a pointer to it stored into the variable pointed to by
42 It is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting host structure
44 .BR ares_free_hostent (3)
45 when it is no longer needed.
53 .BR "struct ares_addrttl"
54 records are stored in the array pointed to by addrttls,
55 and then *naddrttls is set to the number of records so stored.
56 Note that the memory for these records is supplied by the caller.
59 can return any of the following values:
62 The response was successfully parsed.
65 The response was malformatted.
68 The response did not contain an answer to the query.
73 .BR ares_gethostbyname (3),
74 .BR ares_free_hostent (3)
76 Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
78 Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.