Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:09:18 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: curl, c-ares, and IPv6 Message-ID: <20100322110918.GB43001@straylight.m.ringlet.net> In-Reply-To: <20100322110558.GA43001@straylight.m.ringlet.net> References: <20100322110558.GA43001@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
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--uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:05:59PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, >=20 > If this is of interest to anybody, I just committed an update to > the c-ares asynchronous DNS resolver library, and also a little change > to the cURL port, finally allowing it to do async DNS lookups when > IPv6 support is enabled. >=20 > I intend to turn IPv6 support on by default for the upcoming > curl-7.20.0 update in a couple of days. If anybody has any strong > reasons why this should not be done[1], please speak up now :) Okay, so I wasn't thinking straight here, sorry people :) IPv6 support *has been* turned on for the cURL port for quite some time now, it's just that it was off on my couple of machines because of the incompatibility with c-ares :) So... so my previous message basically boils down to "hi, you can use c-ares and IPv6 with curl now, and while I'm here, let me also demonstrace my absent-mindedness" :) > [1] I mean, besides the obvious "one more DNS query and a failed > connect() call" - too many other applications have done this by > default for the past five, if not ten, years, and there's a growing > number of instalations (well, okay, still a minority, but still...) > where the connect() call will *not* fail :) G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@space.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJLp0/eAAoJEGUe77AlJ98TJqsP/R0o25TnXqGimGOytU0SxOVk Svs4/Vu3o8YDFMxor4ou6xEut+DNIT5SfpjEV0xfAqbhsKOyhgsvPbTQrF7Cus5O qSlqwzH1OMKmaRdc7Lrex1xL+EhRwmjb7Eu6cuwntFUGEz1cP1C89QRn/KsPFMB0 juTscuX0lpwNRaV8XP5g/w6d11ss+5nWL678YBucyvsT7sJWXiqYtdqnjQfjB1jP QY5Q+3tEea34P7rvdyuSvXmAdPLvdP/3t3zTJ2IP0BCW7/pAvX53wqtoWA4s8xzl 0kJ5fCekV8dE/twJTA+XCZNuJLA8xtEsZ4Am1NC38sB4Dz3UxBYlHDi/kFLKfG8A nnkvRIWDtRdt1i0SyMn5DTJK26Ff0WuiKI++5cuwGdVgFlDYmMKBI13VJpEZ03Hy c8ebHb6vP0jWj3JGAE4b8V+OJZJ3DD5Ggk+CgWlwWPFMOw049KfCQBhfftWkNPHL M+yU1k/FeEfw0wPSi5GWgd4SgE1yzyssruqnnRqyh7dogkO3xDT4Ht/vWM73I35v HVOvvD9/Npq6E1Pes59QB+Wmoq4D26iXWo+47ngOBukctrwLQ5opphU8NEsTeupk EIAFnF4ZJ5UCdcRonWsTgx24PUtWAHOKAC0iZR5l0bBqlZFbqqHVApuTz/192LC3 BzS10TUWTEp3UKthtPFy =mXaL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD--
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