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Id: hesiod.3,v 1.4 2009/03/09 23:49:06 tbox Exp

hesiod, hesiod_init, hesiod_resolve, hesiod_free_list, hesiod_to_bind, hesiod_end - Hesiod name server interface library

 #include <hesiod.h> 

 int hesiod_init(void **context)  char **hesiod_resolve(void *context, const char *name,  const char *type)  void hesiod_free_list(void *context, char **list);  char *hesiod_to_bind(void *context, const char *name,  const char *type)  void hesiod_end(void *context) 

This family of functions allows you to perform lookups of Hesiod information, which is stored as text records in the Domain Name Service. To perform lookups, you must first initialize a context , an opaque object which stores information used internally by the library between calls. hesiod_init initializes a context, storing a pointer to the context in the location pointed to by the context argument. hesiod_end frees the resources used by a context.

hesiod_resolve is the primary interface to the library. If successful, it returns a list of one or more strings giving the records matching name and type . The last element of the list is followed by a NULL pointer. It is the caller's responsibility to call hesiod_free_list to free the resources used by the returned list.

hesiod_to_bind converts name and type into the DNS name used by hesiod_resolve . It is the caller's responsibility to free the returned string using free .

If successful, hesiod_init returns 0; otherwise it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error. On failure, hesiod_resolve and hesiod_to_bind return NULL and set the global variable errno to indicate the error. If the environment variable HES_DOMAIN is set, it will override the domain in the Hesiod configuration file. If the environment variable HESIOD_CONFIG is set, it specifies the location of the Hesiod configuration file. `Hesiod - Project Athena Technical Plan -- Name Service' Hesiod calls may fail because of: Insufficient memory was available to carry out the requested operation. hesiod_init failed because the Hesiod configuration file was invalid. hesiod_resolve failed because no name server could be contacted to answer the query. hesiod_resolve failed because the query or response was too big to fit into the packet buffers. hesiod_resolve failed because the name server had no text records matching name and type , or hesiod_to_bind failed because the name argument had a domain extension which could not be resolved with type ``rhs-extension'' in the local Hesiod domain. Steve Dyer, IBM/Project Athena

Greg Hudson, MIT Team Athena

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The strings corresponding to the errno values set by the Hesiod functions are not particularly indicative of what went wrong, especially for ENOEXEC and ENOENT .