ARES_PARSE_NS_REPLY(3)

✨ ARES_PARSE_NS_REPLY(3) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual 💖 this one's about ares_parse_ns_reply, and honestly? it's giving "quiet little function that does one job and does it well." we love a focused queen. 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

ares_parse_ns_reply — parse a reply to a DNS query of type NS into a hostent

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ares.h>

int ares_parse_ns_reply(const unsigned char *abuf, int alen,
                        struct hostent **host);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, ares_parse_ns_reply takes the response to a query of type NS and parses it into a struct hostent. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

the parameters abuf and alen give the contents of the response — abuf is your raw bytes, alen is how many of them there are. iykyk. 🌈

the result gets stored in allocated memory, and a pointer to it gets stored into the variable pointed to by host. so host is like, the address of your pointer. very demure, very pointer-to-pointer. 🫶

and here's the cute part — the nameservers are stored into the aliases field of the host structure. yes, the aliases field. not a separate one. that's just how it is. 💀

⚠️ bestie, listen. it is the caller's responsibility to free the resulting host structure using ares_free_hostent(3) when it is no longer needed. don't forget. don't ghost it. that's a memory leak and we do NOT do those. 😭

⭐ RETURN VALUES ⭐

ares_parse_ns_reply can return any of the following values, so let's do a little vibe check on each one:

• ARES_SUCCESS — slay! the response was successfully parsed. 💖
• ARES_EBADRESP — the response was malformatted. it's giving corrupted. 🙈
• ARES_ENODATA — the response did not contain an answer to the query. empty handed, no cap. 💀
• ARES_ENOMEM — memory was exhausted. we ran out. it's over. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ares_query(3)
• ares_free_hostent(3)

that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 🍓✨ mwah 💜

this was ARES_PARSE_NS_REPLY(3) from the Library Functions Manual, dated 10 February 2007 — iconic since day one, no notes. 👑🌸🦋