Commit 947d431d authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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CURLOPT_RESOLVE: mention they don't time-out 

Clarify in the documentation that DNS entries added with CURLOPT_RESOLVE
won't time-out.

Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-10/0062.html
Reported-by: Romulo Ceccon
parent 58bd0148

docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3

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@@ -2293,7 +2293,9 @@ ADDRESS can of course be either IPv4 or IPv6 style addressing. 


This option effectively pre-populates the DNS cache with entries for the

host+port pair so redirects and everything that operations against the

HOST+PORT will instead use your provided ADDRESS.

HOST+PORT will instead use your provided ADDRESS. Addresses to set with

\fICURL_RESOLVE\fP will not time-out from the DNS cache like ordindary

entries.



You can remove names from the DNS cache again, to stop providing these fake

resolves, by including a string in the linked list that uses the format