#ifndef _DNS_H
#define _DNS_H
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <sys/socket.h>
-#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <string>
+#include "inspircd_config.h"
+#include "socket.h"
+#include "base.h"
-struct dns_ip4list {
+struct dns_ip4list
+{
in_addr ip;
dns_ip4list *next;
};
-class DNS
+
+/** The DNS class allows fast nonblocking resolution of hostnames
+ * and ip addresses. It is based heavily upon firedns by Ian Gulliver.
+ */
+class DNS : public Extensible
{
private:
- char *result;
in_addr *binip;
- int t,i;
+ char* result;
+ char localbuf[1024];
+ int t;
void dns_init();
- unsigned int fd;
+ int myfd;
void dns_init_2(const char* dnsserver);
in_addr *dns_aton4(const char * const ipstring);
char *dns_ntoa4(const in_addr * const ip);
char *dns_ntoa4_r(const in_addr * const ip);
char *dns_getresult_r(const int fd);
public:
+ /** The default constructor uses dns addresses read from /etc/resolv.conf.
+ * Please note that it will re-read /etc/resolv.conf for each copy of the
+ * class you instantiate, causing disk access and slow lookups if you create
+ * a lot of them. Consider passing the constructor a server address as a parameter
+ * instead.
+ */
DNS();
- DNS(std::string dnsserver);
+ /** This constructor accepts a dns server address. The address must be in dotted
+ * decimal form, e.g. 1.2.3.4.
+ */
+ DNS(const std::string &dnsserver);
+ /** The destructor frees all used structures.
+ */
~DNS();
- bool ReverseLookup(std::string ip);
- bool ForwardLookup(std::string host);
+ /** This method will start the reverse lookup of an ip given in dotted decimal
+ * format, e.g. 1.2.3.4, and returns true if the lookup was successfully
+ * initiated.
+ */
+ bool ReverseLookup(const std::string &ip);
+ /** This method will start the forward lookup of a hostname, e.g. www.inspircd.org,
+ * and returns true if the lookup was successfully initiated.
+ */
+ bool ForwardLookup(const std::string &host);
+ /** Used by modules to perform a dns lookup but have the socket engine poll a module, instead of the dns object directly.
+ */
+ bool ForwardLookupWithFD(const std::string &host, int &fd);
+ /** This method will return true when the lookup is completed. It uses poll internally
+ * to determine the status of the socket.
+ */
bool HasResult();
+ /** This method will return true if the lookup's fd matches the one provided
+ */
+ bool HasResult(int fd);
+ /** This method returns the result of your query as a string, depending upon wether you
+ * called DNS::ReverseLookup() or DNS::ForwardLookup.
+ */
std::string GetResult();
+ std::string GetResultIP();
+ /** This method returns the file handle used by the dns query socket or zero if the
+ * query is invalid for some reason, e.g. the dns server not responding.
+ */
int GetFD();
+ void SetNS(const std::string &dnsserver);
};
+/** This is the handler function for multi-threaded DNS.
+ * It cannot be a class member as pthread will not let us
+ * create a thread whos handler function is a member of
+ * a class (ugh).
+ */
+void* dns_task(void* arg);
+
#endif