On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Paul Oliver wrote:

> It looks as if it's this
> https://github.com/bagder/c-ares/blob/bba4dc573f5c31b0145d09aa2c245e94896cf1df/ares_init.c#L1908.

What's RANDOM_FILE in your case? That function does look a bit fishy and
possible to improve.

> I can't seem to find a way of doing it globally...
>
> My /etc/hosts is 9 lines ;}

Well, that function has nothing to do with your hosts size, it is about
randomizing a key but it should be possible to improve significantly.

And to be pedantic: that's a problem with c-ares, not with libcurl so the
better place to discuss this and to send patches to improve it is on the
c-ares mailing list: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/c-ares

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