BIND 4.9.5-P1.

libresolv and include are required until the new resolver gets integrated
into libc.

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/named/man/resolver.3 b/usr.sbin/named/man/resolver.3
index 6372823e11f..23297c5ee14 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/named/man/resolver.3
+++ b/usr.sbin/named/man/resolver.3
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: resolver.3,v 1.1 1996/02/02 15:27:53 mrg Exp $
-.\"
+.\"	$OpenBSD: resolver.3,v 1.2 1997/03/12 10:42:18 downsj Exp $
 .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1995 The Regents of the University of California.
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@
 .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)resolver.3	6.5 (Berkeley) 6/23/90
-.\"	$Id: resolver.3,v 8.3 1995/12/22 10:20:28 vixie Exp 
+.\"	$From: resolver.3,v 8.4 1996/05/09 05:59:10 vixie Exp $
 .\"
 .TH RESOLVER 3 "December 11, 1995
 .UC 4
@@ -100,6 +99,10 @@ res_query, res_search, res_mkquery, res_send, res_init, dn_comp, dn_expand \- re
 .B char *exp_dn;
 .br
 .B int  length;
+.PP
+.B herror(const char *s)
+.PP
+.B hstrerror(int err)
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 These routines are used for making, sending and interpreting
 query and reply messages with Internet domain name servers.
@@ -295,6 +298,38 @@ The uncompressed name is placed in the buffer indicated by
 which is of size
 .IR length .
 The size of compressed name is returned or \-1 if there was an error.
+.PP
+The external variable
+.B h_errno
+is set whenever an error occurs during resolver operation.  The following
+definitions are given in
+.BR <netdb.h> :
+.PP
+.nf
+#define NETDB_INTERNAL -1  /* see errno */
+#define NETDB_SUCCESS  0   /* no problem */
+#define HOST_NOT_FOUND 1   /* Authoritative Answer Host not found */
+#define TRY_AGAIN      2   /* Non-Authoritive not found, or SERVFAIL */
+#define NO_RECOVERY    3   /* Nonrecoverable: FORMERR, REFUSED, NOTIMP */
+#define NO_DATA        4   /* Valid name, no data for requested type */
+.ft R
+.ad
+.fi
+.PP
+The
+.B herror
+function writes a message to the diagnostic output consisting of the string
+parameter
+.BR s ,
+the constant string ": ", and a message corresponding to the value of
+.BR h_errno .
+.PP
+The
+.B hstrerror
+function returns a string which is the message text corresponding to the
+value of the
+.B err
+parameter.
 .SH FILES
 /etc/resolv.conf	see resolver(5)
 .SH "SEE ALSO"