Commit 18a9ee6b authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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FAQ: the threaded resolver works universally now

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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.