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16.TH ARES_PARSE_PTR_REPLY 3 "25 July 1998"
17.SH NAME
18ares_parse_ptr_reply \- Parse a reply to a DNS query of type PTR into a hostent
19.SH SYNOPSIS
20.nf
21.B #include <ares.h>
22.PP
23.B int ares_parse_ptr_reply(const unsigned char *\fIabuf\fP, int \fIalen\fP,
24.B const void *\fIaddr\fP, int \fIaddrlen\fP, int \fIfamily\fP,
25.B struct hostent **\fIhost\fP);
26.fi
27.SH DESCRIPTION
28The
29.B ares_parse_ptr_reply
30function parses the response to a query of type PTR into a
31.BR "struct hostent" .
32The parameters
33.I abuf
34and
35.I alen
36give the contents of the response. The parameters
37.IR addr ,
38.IR addrlen ,
39and
40.I family
41specify which address was queried for; they are not used to verify the
42response, merely used to fill in the address of the
43.BR "struct hostent" .
44The resulting
45.B struct hostent
46is stored in allocated memory and a pointer to it stored into the
47variable pointed to by
48.IR host .
49It is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting host structure
50using
51.BR ares_free_hostent (3)
52when it is no longer needed.
53.SH RETURN VALUES
54.B ares_parse_ptr_reply
55can return any of the following values:
56.TP 15
57.B ARES_SUCCESS
58The response was successfully parsed.
59.TP 15
60.B ARES_EBADRESP
61The response was malformatted.
62.TP 15
63.B ARES_ENODATA
64The response did not contain an answer to the query.
65.TP 15
66.B ARES_ENOMEM
67Memory was exhausted.
68.SH SEE ALSO
69.BR ares_gethostbyaddr (3),
70.BR ares_free_hostent (3)
71.SH AUTHOR
72Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
73.br
74Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.