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Re: Bug or not ?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:21:02 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Olivier Rosello wrote:

>> curl uses getaddrinfo() to resolve names when built IPv6-enabled (if c-ares
>> wasn't specified at build time)

> $ curl -V

> c-ares/1.6.0
>
> So c-ares was specified at build time ?

Yes. Sorry, I'm clearly not good enough at this reading thing!

> Is there a mean to get ipv6 by default with this build ?

c-ares' support for IPv6 is still imperfect and it has no "proper" alternative
to getaddrinfo() so no, there no way to do that atm using c-ares.

We do welcome patches and improvements though!

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2009-06-25