> Hey (Sterling)!
>
> This took me a few hours to sort out, please bear with me. We're passed
> midnight with an hour.
>
> We need to involve the port number in the DNS cache (when we run on
> IPv6-enabled hosts at least), or we need to ignore the port number in the
> 'addrinfo' and always replace it with our own. The later would mean a really
> crude hack.
>
> That's because we use getaddrinfo() to get host information, and that
> function takes port number as an argument. It then returns a linked list with
> information, in which the port number is stored (later used for connection).
>
> The current dns cache only cares about the host name. Alas, when we try to
> ftp to a IP number and wans to use PASV or EPSV and ask the server for
> another port to connect to...
>
> Yes, the cache returns the same info as the last lookup did, which then uses
> the *former* port number and not the new one that we wanna lookup now. So
> then after having issued the PASV or EPSV command, curl connects to the
> original port once again and not to the new port just opened for the data
> connection.
>
> Sterling, are you up for a fix?
>

    Ok, sure... Go to bed ;), I'll try and get it done be for morning...
    I'm thinking hostcache entry that looks like::
    
    hostname:port
    
    i thought of doing this before, then forgot :)
    
    -Sterling

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Received on 2002-01-17