-Updated: Nov 7, 2009 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
+Updated: June 30, 2010 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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Using this offers asynchronous name resolves but it currently has no IPv6
support.
- - The Windows threaded resolver. It use:
+ - The threaded resolver (default option on Windows). It uses:
- A - gethostbyname() on plain ipv4 windows hosts
- B - getaddrinfo() on ipv6-enabled windows hosts
+ A - gethostbyname() on plain ipv4 hosts
+ B - getaddrinfo() on ipv6-enabled hosts
Also note that libcurl never resolves or reverse-lookups addresses given as
pure numbers, such as 127.0.0.1 or ::1.