Yes, it turned out that "http_proxy" was set in the environment to point
to a proxy server. I'm using ' -x "" ' to override that and it works
fine. Thanks for the help.

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[mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Michael Ludwig
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:29 AM
To: the curl tool
Subject: Re: Hostname could not be resolved by DNS

Wurtz, Frederick (GE, Research, consultant) schrieb:
> Thanks Michael. So, if you are correct then it is the proxy server
> that cannot resolve the hostname?

Yes. Or, more likely, the DNS server it is querying.

Michael
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