SYNOPSIS

echo _service._protocol.nongnu.org | ruli-getaddrinfo
echo _service._protocol.nongnu.org | srvsearch [ options ]
echo _service._protocol.nongnu.org | sync_srvsearch [ options ]
echo nongnu.org | smtpsearch [ options ]
echo nongnu.org | sync_smtpsearch [ options ]
echo nongnu.org | httpsearch [ options ]
echo nongnu.org | sync_httpsearch [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly sample programs for the ruli(3) library.

ruli is a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

OPTIONS

For http searches, one can force the port number by specifying it as the first option.

search

Use the resolver search list defined in '/etc/resolv.conf'.

need_ra

Require RA (Recursion Available) bit in the name server answer.

noinet

Don't fetch IPv4 addresses.

noinet6

Don't fetch IPv6 addresses.

uri_port

Assume the specified default port was forced by the user-supplied URI.

nowalk

Don't search addresses missing from the name server answer.

nofall

Don't launch fallback queries for addresses, if the SRV query fails.

nosort6

Don't sort the address list to give preference to IPv6 addresses.

EXAMPLES

echo _telnet._tcp.nongnu.org | ruli-getaddrinfo
echo _smtp._tcp.nongnu.org | srvsearch search
echo _smtp._tcp.nongnu.org | sync_srvsearch search noinet6
echo nongnu.org | smtpsearch noinet
echo nongnu.org | sync_smtpsearch nowalk nofall
echo nongnu.org | httpsearch noinet6
echo nongnu.org | sync_httpsearch 80

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Everton da Silva Marques <[email protected]>.