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ares_search - Initiate a DNS query with domain search

#include <ares.h>

typedef void (*ares_callback)(void *arg, int status,
 int timeouts, unsigned char *abuf,
 int alen)

void ares_search(ares_channel channel, const char *name,
 int dnsclass, int type,
 ares_callback callback, void *arg)

The ares_search function initiates a series of single-question DNS queries on the name service channel identified by channel , using the channel's search domains as well as a host alias file given by the HOSTALIAS environment variable. The parameter name gives the alias name or the base of the query name as a NUL-terminated C string of period-separated labels; if it ends with a period, the channel's search domains will not be used. Periods and backslashes within a label must be escaped with a backslash. The parameters dnsclass and type give the class and type of the query using the values defined in <arpa/nameser.h> . When the query sequence is complete or has failed, the ares library will invoke callback . Completion or failure of the query sequence may happen immediately, or may happen during a later call to ares_process (3) or ares_destroy (3).

The callback argument arg is copied from the ares_search argument arg . The callback argument status indicates whether the query sequence ended with a successful query and, if not, how the query sequence failed. It may have any of the following values:

19 ARES_SUCCESS A query completed successfully.

19 ARES_ENODATA No query completed successfully; when the query was tried without a search domain appended, a response was returned with no answers.

19 ARES_EFORMERR A query completed but the server claimed that the query was malformatted.

19 ARES_ESERVFAIL No query completed successfully; when the query was tried without a search domain appended, the server claimed to have experienced a failure. (This code can only occur if the ARES_FLAG_NOCHECKRESP flag was specified at channel initialization time; otherwise, such responses are ignored at the ares_send (3) level.)

19 ARES_ENOTFOUND No query completed successfully; when the query was tried without a search domain appended, the server reported that the queried-for domain name was not found.

19 ARES_ENOTIMP A query completed but the server does not implement the operation requested by the query. (This code can only occur if the ARES_FLAG_NOCHECKRESP flag was specified at channel initialization time; otherwise, such responses are ignored at the ares_send (3) level.)

19 ARES_EREFUSED A query completed but the server refused the query. (This code can only occur returned if the ARES_FLAG_NOCHECKRESP flag was specified at channel initialization time; otherwise, such responses are ignored at the ares_send (3) level.)

19 ARES_TIMEOUT No name servers responded to a query within the timeout period.

19 ARES_ECONNREFUSED No name servers could be contacted.

19 ARES_ENOMEM Memory was exhausted.

19 ARES_ECANCELLED The query was cancelled.

19 ARES_EDESTRUCTION The name service channel channel is being destroyed; the query will not be completed.

The callback argument timeouts reports how many times a query timed out during the execution of the given request.

If a query completed successfully, the callback argument abuf points to a result buffer of length alen . If the query did not complete successfully, abuf will usually be NULL and alen will usually be 0, but in some cases an unsuccessful query result may be placed in abuf .

ares_process (3) Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems

Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.