On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:28:11 +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote about "Re: gethostbyname_r(2)":
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Zvi Har'El wrote:
>
> > Second, I have a problem: When using curl without a proxy, it fails to
> > reolve the site address:
> >
> > ~$ curl --version
> > curl 7.10.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.10.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6g zlib/1.1.4
> > ~$ curl -I http://www.google.com
> > * Couldn't resolve host 'www.google.com'curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host
> > * 'www.google.com'
>
> I find this very strange, since no one else has reported this and I figure it
> should hit quite a lot of people if this is truly a curl error.
>
> However, can you possibly set a break-point in Curl_getaddrinfo (hostip.c
> around line 510) and single-step forward until it fails and see what kind of
> error it detects?
>
> We use gethostbyname_r() for name resolves (where available), and this
> function is annoyingly badly documented.

I'll gladly do it and send you the reults.

>
> > ~$ export http_proxy=http://proxy:8080/
> > ~$ curl -I http://www.google.com
> > HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
>
> It could resolve the proxy name at least!

the proxy is defined in /etc/hosts in my case. I also have no problems in
connecting to other sites whose names can be resolved by /etc/hosts lookup. The
problem is with the DNS lookup.

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                           Thursday, 11 Heshvan 5763, 17 October 2002, 11:03AM
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