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HESIOD(3)							     HESIOD(3)

NAME
       hesiod,	hesiod_init, hesiod_resolve, hesiod_free_list, hesiod_to_bind,
       hesiod_free_string, hesiod_end - Hesiod name server interface library

SYNOPSIS
       #include <hesiod.h>

       int hesiod_init(void **context)
       char **hesiod_resolve(void *context, const char *name,
	    const char *type)
       void hesiod_free_list(void *context, char **list);
       char *hesiod_to_bind(void *context, const char *name,
	    const char *type)
       void hesiod_free_string(void *context, char *str);
       char **hesiod_parse_result(void *context,
       unsigned const char *result, int rlen)
       void hesiod_end(void *context)

       cc file.c -lhesiod

DESCRIPTION
       This family of functions allows you to perform lookups of Hesiod infor‐
       mation, which is stored as text records in the Domain Name Service.  To
       perform lookups, you must first initialize a context, an opaque	object
       which  stores information used internally by the library between calls.
       hesiod_init initializes a context, storing a pointer to the context  in
       the  location pointed to by the context argument.  hesiod_end frees the
       resources used by a context.

       hesiod_resolve is the primary interface to the library.	If successful,
       it  returns  a  list of one or more strings giving the records matching
       name and type.  The last element of the list  is	 followed  by  a  NULL
       pointer.	 It is the caller's responsibility to call hesiod_free_list to
       free the resources used by the returned list.

       hesiod_to_bind converts name and type into the DNS name	used  by  hes‐
       iod_resolve.   It  is  the caller's responsibility to free the returned
       string using hesiod_free_string.

       hesiod_parse_result parses the result of a name server query into  text
       records.	 It is the caller's responsibility to call hesiod_free_list to
       free the resources used by the returned list.

RETURN VALUES
       If successful, hesiod_init returns 0; otherwise it returns -1 and  sets
       errno  to  indicate  the	 error.	  On  failure, hesiod_resolve and hes‐
       iod_to_bind return NULL and set the global variable errno  to  indicate
       the error.

ENVIRONMENT
       If  the	environment  variable  HES_DOMAIN is set, it will override the
       domain in the Hesiod configuration file.	 If the	 environment  variable
       HESIOD_CONFIG  is set, it specifies the location of the Hesiod configu‐
       ration file.

SEE ALSO
       `Hesiod - Project Athena Technical Plan	--  Name  Service',  named(8),
       hesiod.conf(5)

ERRORS
       Hesiod calls may fail because of:

       ENOMEM Insufficient  memory  was	 available  to carry out the requested
	      operation.

       ENOEXEC
	      hesiod_init failed because the  Hesiod  configuration  file  was
	      invalid.

       ECONNREFUSED
	      hesiod_resolve  failed because no name server could be contacted
	      to answer the query.

       EMSGSIZE
	      hesiod_resolve or hesiod_to_bind failed  because	the  query  or
	      response was too big to fit into the packet buffers.

       ENOENT hesiod_resolve  failed  because  the  name  server  had  no text
	      records matching name and type, or hesiod_to_bind failed because
	      the  name	 argument  had	a  domain extension which could not be
	      resolved with type ``rhs-extension'' in the local Hesiod domain.

       EINVAL hesiod_to_bind failed to convert the resulting domain name  from
	      UTF-8 to an internationalized domain name.

AUTHOR
       Steve Dyer, IBM/Project Athena
       Greg Hudson, MIT Team Athena
       Copyright  1987,	 1988, 1995, 1996, 2000 by the Massachusetts Institute
       of Technology.

BUGS
       The strings corresponding to the errno values set by the	 Hesiod	 func‐
       tions  are  not	particularly indicative of what went wrong, especially
       for ENOEXEC and ENOENT.

			       30 November 1996			     HESIOD(3)
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