On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, What you get is Not what you see wrote:
>
>> Ok I understood the difference.My case was the latter and I understood
>> that my curl version is older than the current one and 7.18.0 so i didnt
>> notice the sock5-hostname option. Now how about the former?
>
> And this is why top-posting is bad. What's "latter" and "former" in this
> context?
>

Sorry I forgot to not top-posting.

> Besides, the mail you responded to accurately said that tunneling DNS
> queries isn't supported (I think that's the "former" you refer to) but
> sending the host name to the proxy to let it do the resolve is (the
> "latter").
>
> So, what's the question again?
>
> --

Yes the former was tunnelling DNS queries and I learnt it isnt supported.
My question was how to make dns queries via socks proxy.
Thanks for your replies.I will use --socks5-hostname option with an upgraded
curl(mine is 7.16.4) to make proxy resolve the hostname.
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Received on 2008-08-04