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5.6 What about Keep-Alive or persistent connections?
5.7 Link errors when building libcurl on Windows!
5.8 libcurl.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory
+ 5.9 How does libcurl resolve host names?
6. License Issues
6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library?
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'man ld.so' and 'man ld' will tell you more details
+ 5.9 How does libcurl resolve host names?
+
+ libcurl includes a number of different name resolve functions:
+
+ - The non-ipv6 resolver that can use one out of four host name resolve calls
+ (depending on what your system supports):
+
+ A - gethostbyname()
+ B - gethostbyname_r() with 3 arguments
+ C - gethostbyname_r() with 5 arguments
+ D - gethostbyname_r() with 6 arguments
+
+ - The ipv6-resolver that uses getaddrinfo()
+
+ - The c-ares based name resolver that uses the c-ares library for resolves.
+
+ - The Windows threaded resolver. It use:
+
+ A - gethostbyname() on plain ipv4 windows hosts
+ B - getaddrinfo() on ipv6-enabled windows hosts
6. License Issues