On Tue, 3 May 2016, Ison wrote:

> echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf
>
> The file is getting updated and the operation exits with error "Timeout was
> reached".

Sorry, but is that the error message from curl when it fails?

> I am able to "ping www.google.com" and "ping my_ftp_server" with 8.8.8.8 as
> the only entry in the resolv.conf file, but the curl operation fails.

Which libcurl version? On Linux? What name resolver backend does your libcurl
use? 'curl -V' shows.

Can you please be more specific about the exact error message and return code
you get from libcurl?

As Dan Fandrich already asked you on curl-users: Can you use the Google DNS
server manually? e.g. does "host www.google.com 8.8.8.8" or "dig
www.google.com @8.8.8.8" return anything?

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