Doc updates and cleanups made with the bind-4.9.4 update some time ago.

I thought I had committed these, but it seems not.

lib/libc/net/Makefile.inc

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ MLINKS+=ethers.3 ether_line.3 ethers.3 ether_aton.3 ethers.3 ether_ntoa.3 \
 	ethers.3 ether_ntohost.3 ethers.3 ether_hostton.3
 MLINKS+=gethostbyname.3 endhostent.3 gethostbyname.3 gethostbyaddr.3 \
 	gethostbyname.3 sethostent.3 gethostbyname.3 gethostent.3 \
-	gethostbyname.3 herror.3
+	gethostbyname.3 herror.3 gethostbyname.3 hstrerror.3
 MLINKS+=getnetent.3 endnetent.3 getnetent.3 getnetbyaddr.3 \
 	getnetent.3 getnetbyname.3 getnetent.3 setnetent.3
 MLINKS+=getprotoent.3 endprotoent.3 getprotoent.3 getprotobyname.3 \

lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3

@@ -29,18 +29,20 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     @(#)gethostbyname.3	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
+.\"     @(#)gethostbyname.3	8.4 (Berkeley) 5/25/95
 .\"
-.Dd April 19, 1994
+.Dd May 25, 1995
 .Dt GETHOSTBYNAME 3
 .Os BSD 4.2
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm gethostbyname ,
+.Nm gethostbyname2 ,
 .Nm gethostbyaddr ,
 .Nm gethostent ,
 .Nm sethostent ,
 .Nm endhostent ,
-.Nm herror
+.Nm herror ,
+.Nm hstrerror
 .Nd get network host entry
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Fd #include <netdb.h>
@@ -48,15 +50,20 @@
 .Ft struct hostent *
 .Fn gethostbyname "const char *name"
 .Ft struct hostent *
+.Fn gethostbyname2 "const char *name" "int af"
+.Ft struct hostent *
 .Fn gethostbyaddr "const char *addr" "int len" "int type"
 .Ft struct hostent *
 .Fn gethostent void
 .Fn sethostent "int stayopen"
 .Fn endhostent void
 .Fn herror "const char *string"
+.Ft const char *
+.Fn hstrerror "int err"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
-.Fn gethostbyname
+.Fn gethostbyname ,
+.Fn gethostbyname2
 and
 .Fn gethostbyaddr
 functions
@@ -85,22 +92,25 @@ The members of this structure are:
 .It Fa h_name
 Official name of the host.
 .It Fa h_aliases
-A zero terminated array of alternate names for the host.
+A NULL-terminated array of alternate names for the host.
 .It Fa h_addrtype
-The type of address being returned; currently always
+The type of address being returned; usually
 .Dv AF_INET .
 .It Fa h_length
 The length, in bytes, of the address.
 .It Fa h_addr_list
-A zero terminated array of network addresses for the host.
+A NULL-terminated array of network addresses for the host.
 Host addresses are returned in network byte order.
 .It Fa h_addr
 The first address in
 .Fa h_addr_list ;
 this is for backward compatibility.
+.El
 .Pp
 When using the nameserver,
 .Fn gethostbyname
+and
+.Fn gethostbyname
 will search for the named host in the current domain and its parents
 unless the name ends in a dot.
 If the name contains no dot, and if the environment variable
@@ -112,6 +122,25 @@ See
 for the domain search procedure and the alias file format.
 .Pp
 The
+.Fn gethostbyname2
+function is an evolution of
+.Fn gethostbyname
+which is intended to allow lookups in address families other than
+.Dv AF_INET ,
+for example
+.Dv AF_INET6 .
+Currently the
+.Fa af
+argument must be specified as
+.Dv AF_INET
+else the fuction will return
+.Dv NULL
+after having set
+.Va h_errno
+to
+.Dv NETDB_INTERNAL
+.Pp
+The
 .Fn sethostent
 function
 may be used to request the use of a connected
@@ -123,7 +152,8 @@ flag is non-zero,
 this sets the option to send all queries to the name server using
 .Tn TCP
 and to retain the connection after each call to 
-.Fn gethostbyname
+.Fn gethostbyname ,
+.Fn gethostbyname2
 or
 .Fn gethostbyaddr .
 Otherwise, queries are performed using
@@ -136,13 +166,31 @@ function
 closes the
 .Tn TCP
 connection.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn herror
+function writes a message to the diagnostic output consisting of the
+string parameter
+.Fa s ,
+the constant string ": ", and a message corresponding to the value of
+.Va h_errno .
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn hstrerror
+function returns a string which is the message text corresponding to the
+value of the
+.Fa err
+parameter.
 .Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width /etc/hosts -compact
+.Bl -tag -width /etc/resolv.conf -compact
 .It Pa /etc/hosts
+.It Pa /etc/host.conf
+.It Pa /etc/resolv.conf
 .El
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 Error return status from 
-.Fn gethostbyname
+.Fn gethostbyname ,
+.Fn gethostbyname2
 and
 .Fn gethostbyaddr
 is indicated by return of a null pointer.
@@ -219,7 +267,8 @@ If the
 .Fa stayopen
 argument is non-zero,
 the file will not be closed after each call to
-.Fn gethostbyname
+.Fn gethostbyname ,
+.Fn gethostbyname2
 or
 .Fn gethostbyaddr .
 .Pp
@@ -241,6 +290,9 @@ and
 .Fn sethostent
 functions appeared in
 .Bx 4.2 .
+The
+.Fn gethostbyname2
+functrion first appeared in bind-4.9.4.
 .Sh BUGS
 These functions use static data storage;
 if the data is needed for future use, it should be

lib/libc/net/getnetent.3

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 .Ft struct netent *
 .Fn getnetent 
 .Ft struct netent *
-.Fn getnetbyname "char *name"
+.Fn getnetbyname "const char *name"
 .Ft struct netent *
 .Fn getnetbyaddr "long net" "int type"
 .Fn setnetent "int stayopen"
@@ -117,7 +117,10 @@ net name or
 net address and type is found,
 or until
 .Dv EOF
-is encountered.
+is encountered. The
+.Fa type
+must be
+.Dv AF_INET .
 Network numbers are supplied in host order.
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact
@@ -129,7 +132,8 @@ Null pointer
 .Dv EOF
 or error.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr networks 5
+.Xr networks 5 ,
+.%T RFC 1101
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Fn getnetent ,

lib/libc/net/resolver.3

@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@
 .Fd #include <arpa/nameser.h>
 .Fd #include <resolv.h>
 .Fo res_query
-.Fa "char *dname"
+.Fa "const char *dname"
 .Fa "int class"
 .Fa "int type"
 .Fa "u_char *answer"
 .Fa "int anslen"
 .Fc
 .Fo res_search
-.Fa "char *dname"
+.Fa "const char *dname"
 .Fa "int class"
 .Fa "int type"
 .Fa "u_char *answer"
@@ -64,33 +64,33 @@
 .Fc
 .Fo res_mkquery
 .Fa "int op"
-.Fa "char *dname"
+.Fa "const char *dname"
 .Fa "int class"
 .Fa "int type"
-.Fa "char *data"
+.Fa "const char *data"
 .Fa "int datalen"
 .Fa "struct rrec *newrr"
 .Fa "char *buf"
 .Fa "int buflen"
 .Fc
 .Fo res_send
-.Fa "char *msg"
+.Fa "const char *msg"
 .Fa "int msglen"
 .Fa "char *answer"
 .Fa "int anslen"
 .Fc
 .Fn res_init 
 .Fo dn_comp
-.Fa "char *exp_dn"
+.Fa "const char *exp_dn"
 .Fa "char *comp_dn"
 .Fa "int length"
 .Fa "char **dnptrs"
 .Fa "char **lastdnptr"
 .Fc
 .Fo dn_expand
-.Fa "u_char *msg"
-.Fa "u_char *eomorig"
-.Fa "u_char *comp_dn"
+.Fa "const u_char *msg"
+.Fa "const u_char *eomorig"
+.Fa "const u_char *comp_dn"
 .Fa "u_char *exp_dn"
 .Fa "int length"
 .Fc
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ will search for host names in the current domain and in parent domains; see
 This is used by the standard host lookup routine
 .Xr gethostbyname 3 .
 This option is enabled by default.
+.It Dv RES_NOALIASES
+This option turns off the user level aliasing feature controlled by the
+.Dq Ev HOSTALIASES
+environment variable.  Network daemons should set this option.
 .El
 .Pp
 The
@@ -179,6 +183,24 @@ The current domain name is defined by the hostname
 if not specified in the configuration file;
 it can be overridden by the environment variable
 .Ev LOCALDOMAIN .
+This environment variable may contain several blank-separated
+tokens if you wish to override the
+.Em "search list"
+on a per-process basis.  This is similar to the
+.Em search
+command in the configuration file.
+Another environment variable (
+.Dq Ev RES_OPTIONS
+can be set to
+override certain internal resolver options which are otherwise
+set by changing fields in the
+.Em _res
+structure or are inherited from the configuration file's
+.Em options
+command.  The syntax of the
+.Dq Ev RES_OPTIONS
+environment variable is explained in
+.Xr resolver 5 .
 Initialization normally occurs on the first call
 to one of the following routines.
 .Pp