On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Anders Bakken wrote:

> I have an issue with curl hanging in getaddrinfo when losing the network
> connection. (I am using CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL).

Right, then you rely solely on the getaddrinfo() implementation to give up at
some point.

> I've verified that this is solved by using --enable-ares but I am a little
> bit worried about potential side-effects of doing this. Should everything
> behave the same in all other cases when using c-ares and not?

No. If there would be the same behavior we wouldn't need multiple resolve
backends. One of the main points with c-ares is that it is done asynchronous
in a controlled and fine way so that it can be stopped and given up nicely.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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