32. (At least on Windows) If libcurl is built with c-ares and there's no DNS

  server configured in the system, the ares_init() call fails and thus
  curl_easy_init() fails as well. This causes weird effects for people who use
  numerical IP addresses only.

diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
index 33fb128..4ba36eb 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
+++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to check the
 changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems
 may have been fixed since this was written!
 
+32. (At least on Windows) If libcurl is built with c-ares and there's no DNS
+  server configured in the system, the ares_init() call fails and thus
+  curl_easy_init() fails as well. This causes weird effects for people who use
+  numerical IP addresses only.
+
 31. "curl-config --libs" will include details set in LDFLAGS when configure is
   run that might be needed only for building libcurl. Similarly, it might
   include options that perhaps aren't suitable both for static and dynamic