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NAMEares_gethostbyname - Initiate a host query by nameSYNOPSIS#include <ares.h> typedef void (*ares_host_callback)(void *arg, int status, struct hostent *hostent) void ares_gethostbyname(ares_channel channel, const char *name, int family, ares_host_callback callback, void *arg) DESCRIPTIONThe ares_gethostbyname function initiates a host query by name on the name service channel identified by channel. The parameter name gives the hostname as a NUL-terminated C string, and family gives the desired type of address for the resulting host entry. When the query is complete or has failed, the ares library will invoke callback. Completion or failure of the query may happen immediately, or may happen during a later call to ares_process(3) or ares_destroy(3).The callback argument arg is copied from the ares_gethostbyname argument arg. The callback argument status indicates whether the query succeeded and, if not, how it failed. It may have any of the following values:
On successful completion of the query, the callback argument hostent points to a struct hostent containing the name of the host returned by the query. The callback need not and should not attempt to free the memory pointed to by hostent; the ares library will free it when the callback returns. If the query did not complete successfully, hostent will be NULL. SEE ALSOares_process(3)AUTHORGreg Hudson, MIT Information SystemsCopyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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