I have tried building latest Wget with '-DHAVE_LIBCARES' and all resolve attempts failed due to Gnulib's select() is not compatible with the socket-number(s) returned from a normal C-ares library on Windows.
This is what I did to fix it: --- a/host.c 2016-04-09 17:45:44 +++ b/host.c 2016-04-09 21:48:06 @@ -694,6 +694,13 @@ return al; } +/* Since GnuLib's select() (i.e. rpl_select()) cannot handle socket-numbers + * returned from C-ares, we must use the original select() from Winsock. + */ +#ifdef WINDOWS +#undef select +#endif + static void wait_ares (ares_channel channel) { ----------- So with a command like 'wget --dns-servers=8.8.8.8 www.vg.no' all is well. But it seems strange to me that w/o the '--dns-servers' option it falls back to good old 'gethostbyname_with_timeout_callback()' method. Shouldn't the use of C-ares's wait_ares() be default w/o this option? I must be missing something. -- --gv