ARES_GETHOSTBYNAME(3)					     Library Functions Manual					     ARES_GETHOSTBYNAME(3)

NAME

       ares_gethostbyname - Initiate a host query by name

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ares.h>

       typedef void (*ares_host_callback)(void *arg, int status,
       int timeouts, struct hostent *hostent)

       void ares_gethostbyname(ares_channel channel, const char *name,
	    int family, ares_host_callback callback, void *arg)

DESCRIPTION

       The ares_gethostbyname function initiates a host query by name on the name service channel identified by channel.  The parameter name gives
       the hostname as a NUL-terminated C string, and family gives the desired type of address for the resulting host entry.  When  the  query	is
       complete  or  has  failed, the ares library will invoke callback.  Completion or failure of the query may happen immediately, or may happen
       during a later call to ares_process(3), ares_destroy(3) or ares_cancel(3).

       The callback argument arg is copied from the ares_gethostbyname argument arg.  The callback argument status  indicates  whether	the  query
       succeeded and, if not, how it failed.  It may have any of the following values:

       ARES_SUCCESS	  The host lookup completed successfully.

       ARES_ENOTIMP	  The ares library does not know how to find addresses of type family.

       ARES_EBADNAME	  The hostname name is composed entirely of numbers and periods, but is not a valid representation of an Internet address.

       ARES_ENOTFOUND	  The address addr was not found.

       ARES_ENOMEM	  Memory was exhausted.

       ARES_ECANCELLED	  The query was cancelled.

       ARES_EDESTRUCTION  The name service channel channel is being destroyed; the query will not be completed.

       The callback argument timeouts reports how many times a query timed out during the execution of the given request.

       On successful completion of the query, the callback argument hostent points to a struct hostent containing the name of the host returned by
       the query.  The callback need not and should not attempt to free the memory pointed to by hostent; the ares library will free it  when  the
       callback returns.  If the query did not complete successfully, hostent will be NULL.

SEE ALSO

       ares_process(3), ares_gethostbyaddr(3)

AUTHOR

       Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
       Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

								   25 July 1998 					     ARES_GETHOSTBYNAME(3)