On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Vladimir Grishchenko wrote:

>> Well, using c-ares for resolving would of course be a way to avoid having
>> to use your system's defective gethostbyname implementation... ;-)
>
> As for c-ares, does it internally implement the name-resolution protocol so
> it never has to call into the gethostbyname and its variants/derivatives?

Exactly. But I should also add that c-ares does not fully implement everything
that gethostbyname and getaddrinfo offer, feature-wise.

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