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    (Added in the section for CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, pointed out on the · 6b7ccde1
    Daniel Stenberg authored
    curl-library list on July 9th 2008 by Mathew Hounsell)
    
    NOTE: the name resolve functions of various libc implementations don't re-read
    name server information unless explicitly told so (by for example calling
    Ires_init(3). This may cause libcurl to keep using the older server even
    if DHCP has updated the server info, and this may look like a DNS cache issue
    to the casual libcurl-app user.
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    (Added in the section for CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, pointed out on the
    Daniel Stenberg authored
    curl-library list on July 9th 2008 by Mathew Hounsell)
    
    NOTE: the name resolve functions of various libc implementations don't re-read
    name server information unless explicitly told so (by for example calling
    Ires_init(3). This may cause libcurl to keep using the older server even
    if DHCP has updated the server info, and this may look like a DNS cache issue
    to the casual libcurl-app user.