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16 .TH ARES_PARSE_NS_REPLY 3 "10 February 2007"
18 ares_parse_ns_reply \- Parse a reply to a DNS query of type NS into a hostent
23 .B int ares_parse_ns_reply(const unsigned char *\fIabuf\fP, int \fIalen\fP,
24 .B struct hostent **\fIhost\fP);
28 .B ares_parse_ns_reply
29 function parses the response to a query of type NS into a
30 .BR "struct hostent" .
35 give the contents of the response. The result is stored in allocated
36 memory and a pointer to it stored into the variable pointed to by
38 The nameservers are stored into the
43 It is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting host structure
45 .BR ares_free_hostent (3)
46 when it is no longer needed.
48 .B ares_parse_ns_reply
49 can return any of the following values:
52 The response was successfully parsed.
55 The response was malformatted.
58 The response did not contain an answer to the query.
64 .BR ares_free_hostent (3)
66 Written by Vlad Dinulescu <vlad.dinulescu@avira.com>, on behalf of AVIRA Gmbh http://www.avira.com