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16 .TH ARES_PARSE_SRV_REPLY 3 "4 August 2009"
18 ares_parse_srv_reply \- Parse a reply to a DNS query of type SRV
23 .B int ares_parse_srv_reply(const unsigned char* \fIabuf\fP, int \fIalen\fP,
24 .B struct ares_srv_reply** \fIsrv_out\fP);
28 .B ares_parse_srv_reply
29 function parses the response to a query of type SRV into a
31 .I struct ares_srv_reply
36 give the contents of the response. The result is stored in allocated
37 memory and a pointer to it stored into the variable pointed to by
39 It is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting
41 structure when it is no longer needed using the function
46 contains the following fields:
50 struct ares_srv_reply {
51 struct ares_srv_reply *next;
52 unsigned short weight;
53 unsigned short priority;
61 .B ares_parse_srv_reply
62 can return any of the following values:
65 The response was successfully parsed.
68 The response was malformatted.
71 The response did not contain an answer to the query.
76 This function was first introduced in c-ares version 1.7.0.
79 .BR ares_free_data (3)
81 Written by Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com>, on behalf of Red Hat, Inc http://www.redhat.com