NAME

       ares_parse_soa_reply - Parse a reply to a DNS query of type SOA

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ares.h>

       int ares_parse_soa_reply(const unsigned char* abuf, int alen,
                                struct ares_soa_reply** soa_out);

DESCRIPTION

       The   ares_parse_soa_reply   function   parses   the   response   to   a   query   of  type  SOA  into  a
       struct ares_soa_reply.  The parameters abuf and alen give the contents of the response.   The  result  is
       stored in allocated memory and a pointer to it stored into the variable pointed to by soa_out.  It is the
       caller's  responsibility  to  free  the resulting soa_out structure when it is no longer needed using the
       function ares_free_data(3).

       The structure ares_soa_reply contains the following fields:

           struct ares_soa_reply {
                char *nsname;
                char *hostmaster;
                unsigned int serial;
                unsigned int refresh;
                unsigned int retry;
                unsigned int expire;
                unsigned int minttl;
           };

RETURN VALUES

       ares_parse_soa_reply can return any of the following values:

       ARES_SUCCESS   The response was successfully parsed.

       ARES_EBADRESP  The response was malformatted.

       ARES_ENODATA   The response did not contain an answer to the query.

       ARES_ENOMEM    Memory was exhausted.

AVAILABILITY

       This function was first introduced in c-ares version 1.9.0.

SEE ALSO

       ares_query(3) ares_free_data(3)

                                                   29 May 2012                           ARES_PARSE_SOA_REPLY(3)