On 05/26/10 01:25, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2010, Dima Tisnek wrote:
>
>> The long-running process tries to access the server, the lookup fails
>> Later when a wireless network is discovered, I'd like to be able to
>> get libcurl to talk to the server, but alas! the resolv data is
>> cached somewhere and I can't get through to c-ares (or libc?) to
>> re-read /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> libc usally provides such a function for the stock resolver, but
> c-ares doesn't.
>
> This is a problem that we're aware of but it has not been solved yet...
>
I could come up with a patch along the lines of glibc patches (ubuntu,
fedora) where system config files are stat()ed and if needed, reloaded
on every init. That would only work on unix, so advice on how to guard
the changes from other platforms is appreciated.

Dima Tisnek
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