ARES_MKQUERY(3)ARES_MKQUERY(3)NAMEares_mkquery - Compose a single-question DNS query buffer
SYNOPSIS
#include <ares.h>
int ares_mkquery(const char *name, int dnsclass, int type,
unsigned short id, int rd, unsigned char **buf,
int *buflen)
DESCRIPTION
Deprecated function. See ares_create_query(3) instead!
The ares_mkquery function composes a DNS query with a single question.
The parameter name gives the query name as a NUL-terminated C string of
period-separated labels optionally ending with a period; periods and
backslashes within a label must be escaped with a backlash. The param‐
eters dnsclass and type give the class and type of the query using the
values defined in <arpa/nameser.h>. The parameter id gives a 16-bit
identifier for the query. The parameter rd should be nonzero if recur‐
sion is desired, zero if not. The query will be placed in an allocated
buffer, a pointer to which will be stored in the variable pointed to by
buf, and the length of which will be stored in the variable pointed to
by buflen. It is the caller's responsibility to free this buffer using
ares_free_string(3) when it is no longer needed.
Usage of ares_mkquery(3) is deprecated, whereas the function is equiva‐
lent to ares_create_query(3) with max_udp_size set to 0.
RETURN VALUESares_mkquery can return any of the following values:
ARES_SUCCESS Construction of the DNS query succeeded.
ARES_EBADNAME The query name name could not be encoded as a domain
name, either because it contained a zero-length label or
because it contained a label of more than 63 characters.
ARES_ENOMEM Memory was exhausted.
SEE ALSOares_expand_name(3), ares_free_string(3)AUTHOR
Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
Copyright 1998, 2000 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
20 Nov 2009 ARES_MKQUERY(3)
