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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2008-07-10 22:24:11 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2008-07-10 22:24:11 +0000
commit6b7ccde1567f401018144e9fa9fcaa63616df338 (patch)
tree969a9e0fe9f3b3ba57ba9be8a97045193b30f747 /docs/libcurl
parent9b0fd007fd342ccb28ce3ea636052a9e43a5a922 (diff)
(Added in the section for CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, pointed out on the
curl-library list on July 9th 2008 by Mathew Hounsell) NOTE: the name resolve functions of various libc implementations don't re-read name server information unless explicitly told so (by for example calling Ires_init(3). This may cause libcurl to keep using the older server even if DHCP has updated the server info, and this may look like a DNS cache issue to the casual libcurl-app user.
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 92056b589..f389f98b4 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -505,6 +505,12 @@ Pass a long, this sets the timeout in seconds. Name resolves will be kept in
memory for this number of seconds. Set to zero (0) to completely disable
caching, or set to -1 to make the cached entries remain forever. By default,
libcurl caches this info for 60 seconds.
+
+NOTE: the name resolve functions of various libc implementations don't re-read
+name server information unless explicitly told so (by for example calling
+\fIres_init(3)\fP. This may cause libcurl to keep using the older server even
+if DHCP has updated the server info, and this may look like a DNS cache issue
+to the casual libcurl-app user.
.IP CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
Pass a long. If the value is non-zero, it tells curl to use a global DNS cache
that will survive between easy handle creations and deletions. This is not