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+This is c-ares, a forked version of the original ares. The original ares
+README follows below, the c-ares specific details are in README.cares
+
+====================================================================
+
 This is ares, an asynchronous resolver library.  It is intended for
 applications which need to perform DNS queries without blocking, or
 need to perform multiple DNS queries in parallel.  The primary