The hosts are normally fast.
I can check with Ops team and get back to you on the "synchronous name" resolving.

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:26 PM
To: libcurl development
Subject: RE: Reg: curl_multi_perform

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Savitha Perumal wrote:

Top-posting and full-quoting is an etiquette violation:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html

> I am trying to send 4 requests. Even after receiving the response for
> 4 requests, the handles = 2.

I've tried but I can't repeat this using your code and I've looked at the code
and no I can't really see why it would behave like that.

Are you using the default synchronous name resolver? I trust the site you
access with this is normally very fast? (I tried against localhost)

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