diff --git a/lib/easy.c b/lib/easy.c
index d1e7ef4426fa9d3610ec47b2c79d591bf666e7de..bc91f4874fd9970a0703ed369fdb27a0bdadf3fd 100644
--- a/lib/easy.c
+++ b/lib/easy.c
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ CURLcode curl_easy_perform(CURL *curl)
     }
 
     if (!data->hostcache) {
-      data->hostcache = Curl_hash_alloc(7, Curl_freednsinfo);
+      data->hostcache = Curl_mk_dnscache();
 
       if(!data->hostcache)
         /* While we possibly could survive and do good without a host cache,
diff --git a/lib/hostip.h b/lib/hostip.h
index 64d402240b23c20c39e4980becc60b5117f2e62a..b7d212d81c8b685f4f3362f20972d8dca6483a15 100644
--- a/lib/hostip.h
+++ b/lib/hostip.h
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ void Curl_scan_cache_used(void *user, void *ptr);
 /* free name info */
 void Curl_freeaddrinfo(Curl_addrinfo *freeaddr);
 
-/* free cached name info */
-void Curl_freednsinfo(void *freethis);
+/* make a new dns cache and return the handle */
+curl_hash *Curl_mk_dnscache(void);
 
 /* prune old entries from the DNS cache */
 void Curl_hostcache_prune(struct SessionHandle *data);
diff --git a/lib/http.c b/lib/http.c
index a7961cba5bb3dde9539c88211e46b8c0d7fadd4f..41b1ef7c47ecc580b326a0b11071beaa3278ade1 100644
--- a/lib/http.c
+++ b/lib/http.c
@@ -398,17 +398,14 @@ CURLcode Curl_http_auth(struct connectdata *conn,
         *availp |= CURLAUTH_DIGEST;
         if(data->state.authwant == CURLAUTH_DIGEST) {
           /* Digest authentication is activated */
-          CURLdigest dig = CURLDIGEST_BAD;
-
-          if(data->state.digest.nonce)
-            infof(data, "Authentication problem. Ignoring this.\n");
-          else
-            dig = Curl_input_digest(conn, start);
+          CURLdigest dig = Curl_input_digest(conn, start);
           
           if(CURLDIGEST_FINE == dig)
             /* We act on it. Store our new url, which happens to be
                the same one we already use! */
             conn->newurl = strdup(data->change.url); /* clone string */
+          else
+            infof(data, "Authentication problem. Ignoring this.\n");
         }
         else
           if(data->state.authwant & CURLAUTH_DIGEST) {
diff --git a/lib/multi.c b/lib/multi.c
index 18bfba2bde00565120d875560ff18d037efa2808..ddc4b16cba2d111c66b9024066e4990f7b690873 100644
--- a/lib/multi.c
+++ b/lib/multi.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ CURLM *curl_multi_init(void)
     multi->type = CURL_MULTI_HANDLE;
   }
 
-  multi->hostcache = Curl_hash_alloc(7, Curl_freednsinfo);
+  multi->hostcache = Curl_mk_dnscache();
   if(!multi->hostcache) {
     /* failure, free mem and bail out */
     free(multi);
diff --git a/lib/share.c b/lib/share.c
index ff1aef2e597c91dcca2d7737597064a3c0de55b7..e554339dec7afa8ceff082697b7d1ec8b073403a 100644
--- a/lib/share.c
+++ b/lib/share.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ curl_share_setopt(CURLSH *sh, CURLSHoption option, ...)
     {
       case CURL_LOCK_DATA_DNS:
         if (!share->hostcache) {
-          share->hostcache = Curl_hash_alloc(7, Curl_freednsinfo);
+          share->hostcache = Curl_mk_dnscache();
         }
         break;