From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:52:58 +0000 (+0200) Subject: FAQ: the threaded resolver works universally now X-Git-Tag: upstream/7.37.1~4945 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=18a9ee6bdfc68d9918958c6bcd03875d320f4008;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcurl.git FAQ: the threaded resolver works universally now --- diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index dfde766..5ac2d63 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Updated: Nov 7, 2009 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) +Updated: June 30, 2010 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | @@ -1100,10 +1100,10 @@ FAQ 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.