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authorAlibek.Jorajev <ajorajev@blackberry.com>2018-05-30 15:23:35 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-06-01 12:47:52 +0200
commitf66d97b677d114733f6b938d54ce7502d6aff214 (patch)
tree6727cfc6ce56762771a85a44f5061f968adc0784 /docs
parenta115c6bbe73175ad6157fce67338d4a18ed768b2 (diff)
CURLOPT_RESOLVE: always purge old entry first
If there's an existing entry using the selected name. Closes #2622
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_RESOLVE.35
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_RESOLVE.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_RESOLVE.3
index b4d79cf3b..d5f8ded64 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_RESOLVE.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_RESOLVE.3
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ HOST+PORT will instead use your provided ADDRESS. Addresses set with
\fICURLOPT_RESOLVE(3)\fP will not time-out from the DNS cache like ordinary
entries.
+If the DNS cache already have an entry for the given host+port pair, then
+this entry will be removed and a new entry will be created. This is because
+old entry may have have different addresses or be ordinary entries with
+time-outs.
+
The provided ADDRESS set by this option will be used even if
\fICURLOPT_IPRESOLVE(3)\fP is set to make libcurl use another IP version.