On Thu, 20 May 2010, Phil Blundell wrote:

> I'm not sure that adding a mechanism which is explicitly for c-ares would be
> all that wholesome. Is this for your query source address binding thing?
> If so, you might do better to just add some kind of generic
> CURLOPT_DNS_QUERY_SOURCE_ADDRESS option and let the various DNS backends
> implement it as they wish.

I agree.

And for this particular feature, perhaps it makes sense to let
CURLOPT_INTERFACE bind the resolver's local end as well? I mean if you care
about where the resolver traffic goes out, don't you also most often want the
same control and interface for the actual subsequent protocol traffic?

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