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4.2 KiB
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177 lines
4.2 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: hesiod.3,v 1.1 1999/01/25 03:43:04 lukem Exp $
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.\" from: #Id: hesiod.3,v 1.9.2.1 1997/01/03 21:02:23 ghudson Exp #
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.\"
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.\" Copyright 1988, 1996 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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.\"
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.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
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.\" software and its documentation for any purpose and without
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.\" fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
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.\" notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
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.\" notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
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.\" documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in
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.\" advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
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.\" software without specific, written prior permission.
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.\" M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of
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.\" this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
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.\" without express or implied warranty.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 30, 1996
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.Dt HESIOD 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm hesiod ,
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.Nm hesiod_init ,
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.Nm hesiod_resolve ,
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.Nm hesiod_free_list ,
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.Nm hesiod_to_bind ,
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.Nm hesiod_end
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.Nd Hesiod name server interface library
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In hesiod.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn hesiod_init "void **context"
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.Ft char **
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.Fn hesiod_resolve "void *context" "const char *name" "const char *type"
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.Ft void
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.Fn hesiod_free_list "void *context" "char **list"
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.Ft char *
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.Fn hesiod_to_bind "void *context" "const char *name" "const char *type"
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.Ft void
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.Fn hesiod_end "void *context"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This family of functions allows you to perform lookups of Hesiod
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information, which is stored as text records in the Domain Name
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Service.
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To perform lookups, you must first initialize a
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.Fa context ,
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an opaque object which stores information used internally by the
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library between calls.
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The
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.Fn hesiod_init
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function
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initializes a context, storing a pointer to the context in the
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location pointed to by the
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.Fa context
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argument.
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The
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.Fn hesiod_end
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function
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frees the resources used by a context.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn hesiod_resolve
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function
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is the primary interface to the library.
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If successful, it returns a
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list of one or more strings giving the records matching
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.Fa name
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and
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.Fa type .
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The last element of the list is followed by a
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.Dv NULL
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pointer.
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It is the
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caller's responsibility to call
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.Fn hesiod_free_list
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to free the resources used by the returned list.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn hesiod_to_bind
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function
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converts
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.Fa name
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and
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.Fa type
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into the DNS name used by
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.Fn hesiod_resolve .
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It is the caller's responsibility to free the returned string using
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.Fn free .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std hesiod_init
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On failure,
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.Fn hesiod_resolve
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and
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.Fn hesiod_to_bind
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return
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.Dv NULL
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and set the global variable
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.Va errno
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to indicate the error.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.Bl -tag -width HESIOD_CONFIG
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.It Ev HES_DOMAIN
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If the environment variable
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.Ev HES_DOMAIN
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is set, it will override the domain in the Hesiod configuration file.
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.It Ev HESIOD_CONFIG
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If the environment variable
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.Ev HESIOD_CONFIG
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is set, it specifies the location of the Hesiod configuration file.
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.El
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.Sh ERRORS
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Hesiod calls may fail because of:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er ENOMEM
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Insufficient memory was available to carry out the requested
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operation.
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.It Bq Er ENOEXEC
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The
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.Fn hesiod_init
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function
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failed because the Hesiod configuration file was invalid.
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.It Bq Er ECONNREFUSED
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The
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.Fn hesiod_resolve
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function
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failed because no name server could be contacted to answer the query.
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.It Bq Er EMSGSIZE
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The
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.Fn hesiod_resolve
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or
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.Fn hesiod_to_bind
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function
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failed because the query or response was too big to fit into the
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packet buffers.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The
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.Fn hesiod_resolve
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function
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failed because the name server had no text records matching
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.Fa name
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and
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.Fa type ,
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or
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.Fn hesiod_to_bind
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failed because the
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.Fa name
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argument had a domain extension which could not be resolved with type
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.Dq rhs\-extension
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in the local Hesiod domain.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr hesiod.conf 5 ,
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.Xr named 8
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.Rs
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.%T "Hesiod - Project Athena Technical Plan -- Name Service"
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.Re
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Steve Dyer ,
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IBM/Project Athena
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.An Greg Hudson ,
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MIT Team Athena
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.Pp
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Copyright 1987, 1988, 1995, 1996 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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.Sh BUGS
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The strings corresponding to the
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.Va errno
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values set by the Hesiod functions are not particularly indicative of
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what went wrong, especially for
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.Er ENOEXEC
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and
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.Er ENOENT .
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