On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Jörg Müller-Tolk wrote:

> Can someone tell me at hand, how curl acts in the following case:
> gethostbyname returns several addresses and the machine of the first
> address is down.
>
> Does it try the further onces or does it fail imediately?

It'll go through all the available addresses and try them one by one until it
succeeds in connecting or runs out of them.

Also, if you build libcurl ipv6-enabled, it uses getaddrinfo() and not
gethostbyname*()...

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