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Re: curl with c-ares returns "(Could not contact DNS servers)"

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:24:15 -0800

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:28:17AM +0000, D C wrote:
> Problem:
>
> My problem is that I get "Couldn't resolve host name" everytime curl returns.
> Upon further inspection in c-ares, I get the error "(Could not contact DNS
> servers)" from c-ares. Then, I noticed that in the function waitperform() (in
> hostares.c), the bitmask returned by ares_getsock is 0x0, which means, that
> there are no fds used by c-ares to return DNS results. That sounds strange.
>
> I verified that the file, /etc/resolv.conf is present with a valid nameserver
> entry. I also verified that ares/curl can read it properly.
>
> Any idea of what happened? Do I have the right packages for my platform? Is
> there a bug that we should fix?
>
> I would appreciate any help.

Do the three c-ares test programs work on this platform? Can other programs on
this system resolve hosts? Does curl work if recompiled to not use c-ares?

>>> Dan
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