On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Joe Collins wrote:

> But I have a weird error. I can't resolve hostnames. I can only use it if
> I give an ip address.

I find this very strange, but incidently I have just been having a
"conversation" in an old (closed) bug report where this same problem has been
observed.

I have not really believed this is actually a true problem, until now. I
haven't touched the resolver functionality in ages...

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100976&aid=211548&group_id=976

> The error I get is
> * gethostbyname_r(2) failed for cartman.sub.myplay.com
> Couldn't resolve host 'cartman.sub.myplay.com'

Can you resolve _any_ host name? Can you check the 'config.h' file of the
curl's root directory (it gets generated by the configure script) and run
"grep HOSTBY config.h" to show us what configure thought of your
gethostbyname_r() setup...

> I can ping it fine. I've tried "/usr/local/bin/curl http://www.yahoo.com"
> and get the same error even though I can ping www.yahoo.com fine
>
> Any ideas?

There isn't the possibility that you're using an older version of curl (or
the library)?

Would you have the possibility to debug (single-step through some parts of)
it (I would be very interested in the error codes etc)? It would also be
interesting to see if you could enlarge the CURL_NAMELOOKUP_SIZE in
lib/hostip.c and recompile, to see if that might be the problem.

lib/hostip.c hosts the function Curl_gethost() in which this problem is
detected.

Hm, does configure detect any IPv6 stuff on your system? (it says something
like 'checking whether to enable ipv6...')

-- 
     Daniel Stenberg -- curl dude -- http://curl.haxx.se/