On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Kamil Dudka wrote:

> I've spotted some inconsistency between curl and c-ares documentation. In
> curl's FAQ [1] is stated that c-ares has no IPv6 support. But going through
> c-ares mailing list [2] I can see the IPv6 works with c-ares already.
>
> Shouldn't we update the FAQ?

Ah yes we should.

c-ares handles IPv6 rather good these days. The biggest flaw I'm still aware
of is for host names that return both A and AAAA fields, as c-ares has no
getaddrinfo() equivalent that returns a mix of A and AAAA resolves.

I believe the current implementation will then favor AAAA, which is more than
just annoying if you happen to not have an IPv6 stack working locally...

Test site: ftp.funet.fi. I can't connect to it with curl built with c-ares, as
it'll prefer its IPv6 address:

$ curl ftp.funet.fi
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 2001:708:10:9::20:1: Network is unreachable

"curl -4 ftp.funet.fi" works fine however, as then it'll just ask for A
records.

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  / daniel.haxx.se