On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:05:59PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > If this is of interest to anybody, I just committed an update to > the c-ares asynchronous DNS resolver library, and also a little change > to the cURL port, finally allowing it to do async DNS lookups when > IPv6 support is enabled. > > I intend to turn IPv6 support on by default for the upcoming > curl-7.20.0 update in a couple of days. If anybody has any strong > reasons why this should not be done[1], please speak up now :)
Okay, so I wasn't thinking straight here, sorry people :) IPv6 support *has been* turned on for the cURL port for quite some time now, it's just that it was off on my couple of machines because of the incompatibility with c-ares :) So... so my previous message basically boils down to "hi, you can use c-ares and IPv6 with curl now, and while I'm here, let me also demonstrace my absent-mindedness" :) > [1] I mean, besides the obvious "one more DNS query and a failed > connect() call" - too many other applications have done this by > default for the past five, if not ten, years, and there's a growing > number of instalations (well, okay, still a minority, but still...) > where the connect() call will *not* fail :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@space.bg r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
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