How to use c-ares with epoll? - c

Question

I have a working code with performs asynchronous DNS resolution with c-ares library calls. The program uses select to monitor file descriptors up to a maximum of FD_SETSIZE which is 1024 on my system. I want to use many more file descriptors so want to rewrite the code to use epoll instead of select.
Here is the select based function of my current program:
static void
wait_ares(ares_channel channel)
{
struct timeval *tvp, tv;
fd_set read_fds, write_fds;
int nfds;
FD_ZERO(&read_fds);
FD_ZERO(&write_fds);
nfds = ares_fds(channel, &read_fds, &write_fds);
if (nfds > 0) {
tvp = ares_timeout(channel, NULL, &tv);
select(nfds, &read_fds, &write_fds, NULL, tvp);
ares_process(channel, &read_fds, &write_fds);
}
}
I've done some googling before posting my question and I've found out that to implement this with epoll I can no longer use ares_fds, ares_timeout and ares_process but must use ares_getsock() and ares_process_fd() instead. But further than that I have no idea how to do this and can't find any example codes using epoll with c-ares. Can anyone modify the code provided below to use epoll instead of select? Or at least give me some pointers to get me started?
#include <ares.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define MAXWAITING 1000 /* Max. number of parallel DNS queries */
#define MAXTRIES 3 /* Max. number of tries per domain */
#define TIMEOUT 3000 /* Max. number of ms for first try */
#define SERVERS "1.0.0.1,8.8.8.8" /* DNS server to use (Cloudflare & Google) */
static int nwaiting;
static void
state_cb(void *data, int s, int read, int write)
{
//printf("Change state fd %d read:%d write:%d\n", s, read, write);
}
static void
callback(void *arg, int status, int timeouts, struct hostent *host)
{
nwaiting--;
if(!host || status != ARES_SUCCESS){
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to lookup %s\n", ares_strerror(status));
return;
}
char ip[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN];
if (host->h_addr_list[0] != NULL){
inet_ntop(host->h_addrtype, host->h_addr_list[0], ip, sizeof(ip));
printf("%s\n%s\n", host->h_name, ip);
}
}
static void
wait_ares(ares_channel channel)
{
struct timeval *tvp, tv;
fd_set read_fds, write_fds;
int nfds;
FD_ZERO(&read_fds);
FD_ZERO(&write_fds);
nfds = ares_fds(channel, &read_fds, &write_fds);
if (nfds > 0) {
tvp = ares_timeout(channel, NULL, &tv);
select(nfds, &read_fds, &write_fds, NULL, tvp);
ares_process(channel, &read_fds, &write_fds);
}
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
FILE * fp;
char domain[128];
size_t len = 0;
ssize_t read;
ares_channel channel;
int status, done = 0;
int optmask;
status = ares_library_init(ARES_LIB_INIT_ALL);
if (status != ARES_SUCCESS) {
printf("ares_library_init: %s\n", ares_strerror(status));
return 1;
}
struct ares_options options = {
.timeout = TIMEOUT, /* set first query timeout */
.tries = MAXTRIES /* set max. number of tries */
};
optmask = ARES_OPT_TIMEOUTMS | ARES_OPT_TRIES;
status = ares_init_options(&channel, &options, optmask);
if (status != ARES_SUCCESS) {
printf("ares_init_options: %s\n", ares_strerror(status));
return 1;
}
status = ares_set_servers_csv(channel, SERVERS);
if (status != ARES_SUCCESS) {
printf("ares_set_servers_csv: %s\n", ares_strerror(status));
return 1;
}
fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (!fp)
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
do {
if (nwaiting >= MAXWAITING || done) {
do {
wait_ares(channel);
} while (nwaiting > MAXWAITING);
}
if (!done) {
if (fscanf(fp, "%127s", domain) == 1) {
ares_gethostbyname(channel, domain, AF_INET, callback, NULL);
nwaiting++;
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "done sending\n");
done = 1;
}
}
} while (nwaiting > 0);
ares_destroy(channel);
ares_library_cleanup();
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}
The program requires a file with a domain name on each line to work.

Answer 1

This is what I ended up coming up with.
#include <ares.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/epoll.h>
#include <errno.h>
#define MAXWAITING 1000 /* Max. number of parallel DNS queries */
#define MAXTRIES 3 /* Max. number of tries per domain */
#define TIMEOUT 3000 /* Max. number of ms for first try */
#define DNS_MAX_EVENTS 10000
#define DNS_MAX_SERVERS 2
#define SERVERS "1.0.0.1,8.8.8.8" /* DNS server to use (Cloudflare & Google) */
static int nwaiting;
ares_socket_t dns_client_fds[ARES_GETSOCK_MAXNUM] = {0};
struct epoll_event ev, events[DNS_MAX_EVENTS];
int i,bitmask,nfds, epollfd, timeout, fd_count, ret;
static void
state_cb(void *data, int s, int read, int write)
{
//printf("Change state fd %d read:%d write:%d\n", s, read, write);
}
static void
callback(void *arg, int status, int timeouts, struct hostent *host)
{
nwaiting--;
if(!host || status != ARES_SUCCESS){
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to lookup %s\n", ares_strerror(status));
return;
}
char ip[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN];
if (host->h_addr_list[0] != NULL){
inet_ntop(host->h_addrtype, host->h_addr_list[0], ip, sizeof(ip));
printf("%s\n%s\n", host->h_name, ip);
}
}
static void
wait_ares(ares_channel channel)
{
nfds=0;
bitmask=0;
for (i =0; i < DNS_MAX_SERVERS ; i++) {
if (dns_client_fds[i] > 0) {
if (epoll_ctl(epollfd, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, dns_client_fds[i], NULL) < 0) {
continue;
}
}
}
memset(dns_client_fds, 0, sizeof(dns_client_fds));
bitmask = ares_getsock(channel, dns_client_fds, DNS_MAX_SERVERS);
for (i =0; i < DNS_MAX_SERVERS ; i++) {
if (dns_client_fds[i] > 0) {
ev.events = 0;
if (ARES_GETSOCK_READABLE(bitmask, i)) {
ev.events |= EPOLLIN;
}
if (ARES_GETSOCK_WRITABLE(bitmask, i)) {
ev.events |= EPOLLOUT;
}
ev.data.fd = dns_client_fds[i];
if (epoll_ctl(epollfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, dns_client_fds[i], &ev) < 0) {
if(errno == EEXIST) {
nfds++;
continue;
}
continue;
}
nfds++;
}
}
if(nfds==0)
{
return;
}
timeout = 1000;//millisecs
fd_count = epoll_wait(epollfd, events, DNS_MAX_EVENTS, timeout);
if (fd_count < 0) {
return;
}
if (fd_count > 0) {
for (i = 0; i < fd_count; ++i) {
ares_process_fd(channel, ((events[i].events) & (EPOLLIN) ? events[i].data.fd:ARES_SOCKET_BAD), ((events[i].events) & (EPOLLOUT)? events[i].data.fd:ARES_SOCKET_BAD));
}
} else {
ares_process_fd(channel, ARES_SOCKET_BAD, ARES_SOCKET_BAD);
}
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
FILE * fp;
char domain[128];
size_t len = 0;
ssize_t read;
ares_channel channel;
int status, done = 0;
int optmask;
status = ares_library_init(ARES_LIB_INIT_ALL);
if (status != ARES_SUCCESS) {
printf("ares_library_init: %s\n", ares_strerror(status));
return 1;
}
struct ares_options options = {
.timeout = TIMEOUT, /* set first query timeout */
.tries = MAXTRIES /* set max. number of tries */
};
optmask = ARES_OPT_TIMEOUTMS | ARES_OPT_TRIES;
status = ares_init_options(&channel, &options, optmask);
if (status != ARES_SUCCESS) {
printf("ares_init_options: %s\n", ares_strerror(status));
return 1;
}
status = ares_set_servers_csv(channel, SERVERS);
if (status != ARES_SUCCESS) {
printf("ares_set_servers_csv: %s\n", ares_strerror(status));
return 1;
}
fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (!fp)
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
memset(dns_client_fds, 0, sizeof(dns_client_fds));
memset((char *)&ev, 0, sizeof(struct epoll_event));
memset((char *)&events[0], 0, sizeof(events));
epollfd = epoll_create(DNS_MAX_SERVERS);
if (epollfd < 0) {
perror("epoll_create: ");
}
do {
if (nwaiting >= MAXWAITING || done) {
do {
wait_ares(channel);
} while (nwaiting > MAXWAITING);
}
if (!done) {
if (fscanf(fp, "%127s", domain) == 1) {
ares_gethostbyname(channel, domain, AF_INET, callback, NULL);
nwaiting++;
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "done sending\n");
done = 1;
}
}
} while (nwaiting > 0);
ares_destroy(channel);
ares_library_cleanup();
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}