On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Bill Shaver wrote:

> Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I have exhausted my resources
> searching for an answer.

It certainly isn't a dumb question!

> But when I attempt to use curl (either via the library routines or directly
> from the curl program) I get a "Couldn't resolve host" error. For example:

[snip]

> Being new to curl and being rusty on my programming, can you suggest any
> tricks for debugging this? Is this a known issue? Any help would be welcome.

I believe this is a bug in the gethostbyname_r-with-3-args code that I've
tried to address in a recent fix. You can either get some recent sources off
CVS, have a go at the 7.9.9-pre1 package or simply apply the patch you find
here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.70&r2=1.71&diff_format=u

I would very much like to know if this corrects the problem or not. I have no
access to any machine that uses that code so I can't verify/debug/test this
myself... :-(

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 Daniel Stenberg -- curl related mails on curl related mailing lists please
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