2007-06-18 ISC Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. lwres_gai_strerror 3 BIND9 2000 2001 2004 2005 2007 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") lwres_gai_strerror print suitable error string #include <lwres/netdb.h> char * gai_strerror int ecode lwres_gai_strerror() returns an error message corresponding to an error code returned by getaddrinfo(). The following error codes and their meaning are defined in include/lwres/netdb.h. EAI_ADDRFAMILY address family for hostname not supported EAI_AGAIN temporary failure in name resolution EAI_BADFLAGS invalid value for ai_flags EAI_FAIL non-recoverable failure in name resolution EAI_FAMILY ai_family not supported EAI_MEMORY memory allocation failure EAI_NODATA no address associated with hostname EAI_NONAME hostname or servname not provided, or not known EAI_SERVICE servname not supported for ai_socktype EAI_SOCKTYPE ai_socktype not supported EAI_SYSTEM system error returned in errno The message invalid error code is returned if ecode is out of range. ai_flags, ai_family and ai_socktype are elements of the struct addrinfo used by lwres_getaddrinfo(). strerror3 , lwres_getaddrinfo3 , getaddrinfo3 , RFC2133 .