On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Dima Tisnek wrote:

> if you want hard timeouts, you need c-ares

... or the multi-threaded resolver.

> then if you run on any unix and you have very long-running processes, you
> need patched c-ares, otherwise curl won't get new dns server when you move
> to a new network or network switch is changed.

Assuming you actually change name resolver frequently. This is not very
common, which is also probably why nobody has bothered to make the patch get
applied in the c-ares project properly.

> P.S. I'm not a libcurl/pycurl developer

With no commits in 2+ years, I'd be inclined to say that there are no current
pycurl developers at all...

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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