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<info>

<date>2007-06-18</date>

</info>

<refentryinfo>

<corpname>ISC</corpname>

<corpauthor>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.</corpauthor>

</refentryinfo>

<refmeta>

<refentrytitle>lwres_getrrsetbyname</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo>BIND9</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<docinfo>

<copyright>

<year>2004</year>

<year>2005</year>

<year>2007</year>

<year>2014</year>

<year>2015</year>

<year>2016</year>

<holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>

</copyright>

<copyright>

<year>2000</year>

<year>2001</year>

<holder>Internet Software Consortium.</holder>

</copyright>

</docinfo>

<refnamediv>

<refname>lwres_getrrsetbyname</refname>

<refname>lwres_freerrset</refname>

<refpurpose>retrieve DNS records</refpurpose>

</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>

<funcsynopsis>

<funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;lwres/netdb.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>

<funcprototype>

<funcdef>

int

<function>lwres_getrrsetbyname</function></funcdef>

<paramdef>const char *<parameter>hostname</parameter></paramdef>

<paramdef>unsigned int <parameter>rdclass</parameter></paramdef>

<paramdef>unsigned int <parameter>rdtype</parameter></paramdef>

<paramdef>unsigned int <parameter>flags</parameter></paramdef>

<paramdef>struct rrsetinfo **<parameter>res</parameter></paramdef>

</funcprototype>

<funcprototype>

<funcdef>

void

<function>lwres_freerrset</function></funcdef>

<paramdef>struct rrsetinfo *<parameter>rrset</parameter></paramdef>

</funcprototype>

</funcsynopsis>

<para>

The following structures are used:

</para>

<para><programlisting>

struct rdatainfo {

unsigned int rdi_length; /* length of data */

unsigned char *rdi_data; /* record data */

};

</programlisting>

</para>

<para><programlisting>

struct rrsetinfo {

unsigned int rri_flags; /* RRSET_VALIDATED... */

unsigned int rri_rdclass; /* class number */

unsigned int rri_rdtype; /* RR type number */

unsigned int rri_ttl; /* time to live */

unsigned int rri_nrdatas; /* size of rdatas array */

unsigned int rri_nsigs; /* size of sigs array */

char *rri_name; /* canonical name */

struct rdatainfo *rri_rdatas; /* individual records */

struct rdatainfo *rri_sigs; /* individual signatures */

};

</programlisting>

</para>

</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsection><info><title>DESCRIPTION</title></info>

<para><function>lwres_getrrsetbyname()</function>

gets a set of resource records associated with a

<parameter>hostname</parameter>, <parameter>class</parameter>,

and <parameter>type</parameter>.

<parameter>hostname</parameter> is a pointer a to

null-terminated string. The <parameter>flags</parameter> field

is currently unused and must be zero.

</para>

<para>

After a successful call to

<function>lwres_getrrsetbyname()</function>,

<parameter>*res</parameter> is a pointer to an

<type>rrsetinfo</type> structure, containing a list of one or

more <type>rdatainfo</type> structures containing resource

records and potentially another list of <type>rdatainfo</type>

structures containing SIG resource records associated with those

records. The members <constant>rri_rdclass</constant> and

<constant>rri_rdtype</constant> are copied from the parameters.

<constant>rri_ttl</constant> and <constant>rri_name</constant>

are properties of the obtained rrset. The resource records

contained in <constant>rri_rdatas</constant> and

<constant>rri_sigs</constant> are in uncompressed DNS wire

format. Properties of the rdataset are represented in the

<constant>rri_flags</constant> bitfield. If the RRSET_VALIDATED

bit is set, the data has been DNSSEC validated and the

signatures verified.

</para>

<para>

All of the information returned by

<function>lwres_getrrsetbyname()</function> is dynamically

allocated: the <constant>rrsetinfo</constant> and

<constant>rdatainfo</constant> structures, and the canonical

host name strings pointed to by the

<constant>rrsetinfo</constant>structure.

Memory allocated for the dynamically allocated structures

created by a successful call to

<function>lwres_getrrsetbyname()</function> is released by

<function>lwres_freerrset()</function>.

<parameter>rrset</parameter> is a pointer to a <type>struct

rrset</type> created by a call to

<function>lwres_getrrsetbyname()</function>.

</para>

<para/>

</refsection>

<refsection><info><title>RETURN VALUES</title></info>

<para><function>lwres_getrrsetbyname()</function>

returns zero on success, and one of the following error codes if

an error occurred:

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>

<term><constant>ERRSET_NONAME</constant></term>

<listitem>

<para>

the name does not exist

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><constant>ERRSET_NODATA</constant></term>

<listitem>

<para>

the name exists, but does not have data of the desired type

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><constant>ERRSET_NOMEMORY</constant></term>

<listitem>

<para>

memory could not be allocated

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><constant>ERRSET_INVAL</constant></term>

<listitem>

<para>

a parameter is invalid

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><constant>ERRSET_FAIL</constant></term>

<listitem>

<para>

other failure

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><constant/></term>

<listitem>

<para/>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</para>

</refsection>

<refsection><info><title>SEE ALSO</title></info>

<para><citerefentry>

<refentrytitle>lwres</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

</citerefentry>.

</para>

</refsection>

</refentry>