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Re: Name lookup/DNS resolution mechanism of libcurl

From: Michael-O <1983-01-06_at_gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:37:31 +0200

Am 2013-03-31 23:30, schrieb Daniel Stenberg:
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Michael-O wrote:
>
>> What is so different about the name resolution in libcurl?
>
> Nothing I'm aware of. In window you get the threaded name resolver by
> default, but that's been used by fellow (lib)curl users on Windows for
> many years without any problems reported.

This is what I have assumed, it's my setup. How come that other
applications resolve quite fast?

>> As a side note: when running the configure script in cygwin either for
>> curl or c-ares the script hangs on "checking types of args and return
>> type for recvfrom..." [1]
>
> That sounds strange. cygwin should work just fine, just be painfully
> slow...

Though my machine is quite old, the script runs in a decent time except
that test. I really think that this is the same problem as with the DNS
resolver.

Michael

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