libwget-dns(3)

NAME
libwget-dns - DNS resolver functions

SYNOPSIS

  Data Structures
struct wget_dns_stats_data
struct wget_dns_st

  Functions
INITIALIZER (dns_init)
int wget_dns_init (wget_dns **dns)
void wget_dns_free (wget_dns **dns)
void wget_dns_set_timeout (wget_dns *dns, int timeout)
void wget_dns_set_cache (wget_dns *dns, wget_dns_cache *cache)
wget_dns_cache * wget_dns_get_cache (wget_dns *dns)
int wget_dns_cache_ip (wget_dns *dns, const char *ip, const char *name, uint16_t port)
struct addrinfo * wget_dns_resolve (wget_dns *dns, const char *host, uint16_t port, int family, int preferred_family)
void wget_dns_freeaddrinfo (wget_dns *dns, struct addrinfo **addrinfo)
void wget_dns_set_stats_callback (wget_dns *dns, wget_dns_stats_callback *fn, void *ctx)

Detailed Description

DNS Resolver functions.

Function Documentation

  int wget_dns_init (wget_dns ** dns)

Parameters
    dns Pointer to return newly allocated and initialized wget_dns instance

Returns
    WGET_E_SUCCESS if OK, WGET_E_MEMORY if out-of-memory or WGET_E_INVALID if the mutex initialization failed.

Allocates and initializes a wget_dns instance. dns may be NULL for the purpose of initializing the global structures.

  void wget_dns_free (wget_dns ** dns)

Parameters
    [in/out] dns Pointer to wget_dns instance that will be freed and NULLified.

Free the resources allocated by wget_dns_init(). dns may be NULL for the purpose of freeing the global structures.

  void wget_dns_set_timeout (wget_dns * dns, int timeout)

Parameters
    dns The wget_dns instance to set the timeout
    timeout The timeout value.

Set the timeout (in milliseconds) for the DNS queries.

This is the maximum time to wait until we get a response from the server.

Warning: For standard getaddrinfo() a timeout can't be set in a portable way. So this functions currently is a no-op.

The following two values are special:

•   0: No timeout, immediate.

•   -1: Infinite timeout. Wait indefinitely.

  void wget_dns_set_cache (wget_dns * dns, wget_dns_cache * cache)

Parameters
    dns A wget_dns instance, created by wget_dns_init().
    cache A wget_dns_cache instance

Enable or disable DNS caching for the DNS instance provided.

The DNS cache is kept internally in memory, and is used in wget_dns_resolve() to speed up DNS queries.

  wget_dns_cache * wget_dns_get_cache (wget_dns * dns)

Parameters
    dns A wget_dns instance, created by wget_dns_init().

Returns
    1 if DNS caching is enabled, 0 otherwise.

Tells whether DNS caching is enabled or not.

You can enable and disable DNS caching with wget_dns_set_caching().

  int wget_dns_cache_ip (wget_dns * dns, const char * ip, const char * name, uint16_t port)

Parameters
    ip IP address of name
    name Domain name, part of the cache's lookup key
    port Port number, part of the cache's lookup key

Returns
    0 on success, < 0 on error

Assign an IP address to the name+port key in the DNS cache. The name should be lowercase.

  struct addrinfo * wget_dns_resolve (wget_dns * dns, const char * host, uint16_t port, int family, int preferred_family)

Parameters
    dns A wget_dns instance, created by wget_dns_init().
    host Hostname
    port TCP destination port
    family Protocol family AF_INET or AF_INET6
    preferred_family Preferred protocol family AF_INET or AF_INET6

Returns
    A struct addrinfo structure (defined in libc's <netdb.h>). Must be freed by the caller with wget_dns_freeaddrinfo().

Resolve a host name into its IPv4/IPv6 address.

family: Desired address family for the returned addresses. This will typically be AF_INET or AF_INET6, but it can be any of the values defined in <socket.h>. Additionally, AF_UNSPEC means you don't care: it will return any address family that can be used with the specified host and port. If family is different than AF_UNSPEC and the specified family is not found, that's an error condition and thus wget_dns_resolve() will return NULL.

preferred_family: Tries to resolve addresses of this family if possible. This is only honored if family (see point above) is AF_UNSPEC.

The returned addrinfo structure must be freed with wget_dns_freeaddrinfo().

  void wget_dns_freeaddrinfo (wget_dns * dns, struct addrinfo ** addrinfo)

Parameters
    dns A wget_dns instance, created by wget_dns_init().
    [in/out] addrinfo Value returned by c

Release addrinfo, previously returned by wget_dns_resolve(). If the underlying dns uses caching, just the reference/pointer is set to NULL.

  void wget_dns_set_stats_callback (wget_dns * dns, wget_dns_stats_callback * fn, void * ctx)

Parameters
    dns A wget_dns instance, created by wget_dns_init().
    fn A wget_dns_stats_callback callback function to receive resolve statistics data
    ctx Context data given to fn

Set callback function to be called once DNS statistics for a host are collected

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