ARES_PARSE_MX_REPLY(3)					     Library Functions Manual					    ARES_PARSE_MX_REPLY(3)

NAME

       ares_parse_mx_reply - Parse a reply to a DNS query of type MX

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ares.h>

       int ares_parse_mx_reply(const unsigned char* abuf, int alen,
       struct ares_mx_reply** mx_out);

DESCRIPTION

       The  ares_parse_mx_reply  function parses the response to a query of type MX into a linked list of struct ares_mx_reply The parameters abuf
       and alen give the contents of the response.  The result is stored in allocated memory and a pointer to it stored into the variable  pointed
       to  by  mx_out.	 It  is  the caller's responsibility to free the resulting mx_out structure when it is no longer needed using the function
       ares_free_data

       The structure ares_mx_reply contains the following fields:

	   struct ares_mx_reply {
	       struct ares_mx_reply *next;
	       char *host;
	       unsigned short priority;
	   };

RETURN VALUES

       ares_parse_mx_reply can return any of the following values:

       ARES_SUCCESS   The response was successfully parsed.

       ARES_EBADRESP  The response was malformatted.

       ARES_ENODATA   The response did not contain an answer to the query.

       ARES_ENOMEM    Memory was exhausted.

AVAILABILITY

       This function was first introduced in c-ares version 1.7.2.

SEE ALSO

       ares_query(3) ares_free_data(3)

AUTHOR

       Written by Jeremy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>

								   4 August 2009					    ARES_PARSE_MX_REPLY(3)