dns_name_packet(3)

dns_name_packet3

Extract names from dns answer packet

Usage

#include <libowfat/dns.h>

int dns_name_packet(stralloc* out,const char* buf,
unsigned int len);

Overview

dns_name_packet is a low-level component of dns_name4, designed to support asynchronous DNS lookups. It reads a DNS packet of length len from buf, extracts the first PTR record from the answer section of the packet, puts the result into out, and returns 0 or -1 the same way as dns_name4.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1–5.0
  2. 7–11
  3. 12–13

From libowfat-dev 0.32-5 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.