hesiod(3) Library Functions Manual hesiod(3)Name
hes_init, hes_to_bind, hes_error, hes_resolve - routines for using Hesiod
Syntax
#include <hesiod.h>
hes_init()
char *hes_to_bind(HesiodName, HesiodNameType)
char *HesiodName, *HesiodNameType;
hes_error()
har **hes_resolve(HesiodName, HesiodNameType)
char *HesiodName, *HesiodNameType;
Description
The routine opens and reads the Hesiod configuration file, to extract the left hand side and right hand side of the Hesiod name.
The routine takes as arguments a and and returns a fully qualified name to be handed to BIND.
The two most useful routines to the applications programmer are and The routine has no arguments and returns an integer which corresponds
to a set of errors which can be found in file.
#define HES_ER_UNINIT -1
#define HES_ER_OK 0
#define HES_ER_NOTFOUND 1
#define HES_ER_CONFIG 2
#define HES_ER_NET 3
The routine resolves given names via the Hesiod name server. It takes as arguments a name to be resolved, the and a type corresponding to
the name, the and returns a pointer to an array of strings which contains all data that matched the query, one match per array slot. The
array is null terminated.
If applications require the data to be maintained throughout multiple calls to the data should be copied since another call to will over-
write any previously-returned data. A null is returned if the data cannot be found.
Examples
The following example shows the use of the Hesiod routines to obtain a Hesiod name from a Hesiod database:
#include <hesiod.h>
char *HesiodName, *HesiodNameType;
char **hp;
hp = hes_resolve(HesiodName, HesiodNameType);
if (hp == NULL) {
error = hes_error();
switch(error) {
.
.
.
}
}
else
process(hp);
FilesSee Alsohesiod.conf(5), bindsetup(8)
Guide to the BIND/Hesiod Service
hesiod(3)
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HESIOD(3) Library Functions Manual HESIOD(3)NAME
hesiod_getservbyname, hesiod_free_servent - Hesiod functions for retrieving service information
SYNOPSIS
#include <hesiod.h>
struct servent *hesiod_getservbyname(void *context,
const char *name, const char *proto)
void hesiod_free_servent(void *context, struct servent *serv)
cc file.c -lhesiod
DESCRIPTION
This family of functions allows you to retrieve service to port mappings using Hesiod. To perform lookups, you need an initialized Hesiod
context; see hesiod(3) for details. Information is returned in the same format as by getservbyname. It is the caller's responsibility to
call hesiod_free_servent with the returned service entry to free the resources used by the service entry.
Hesiod queries for service information are made using the ``service'' Hesiod type, using the service name as the Hesiod name. The corre-
sponding records should be space-separated lists of strings giving the service name, protocol, port number (in decimal), and zero or more
aliases for the service. There may be multiple records per service name; hesiod_getservbyname will pick the first one whose protocol
matches proto.
RETURN VALUES
On failure, hesiod_getservbyname returns NULL and sets the global variable errno to indicate the error.
ERRORS
hesiod_getservbyname may fail for any of the reasons the routine hesiod_resolve may fail.
SEE ALSO hesiod(3)
30 November 1996 HESIOD(3)
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