(ares_init.c/get_iphlpapi_dns_info() function): when I disable the network
  by hand or disconnect the network cable in Windows 2000 or Windows XP, my
  application gets 127.0.0.1 as the only name server. The problem comes from
  'GetNetworkParams' function, that returns the empty string "" as the only
  name server in that case. Moreover, the Windows implementation of
  inet_addr() returns INADDR_LOOPBACK instead of INADDR_NONE.

 o made ares_version.h use extern "C" for c++ compilers
 o fixed compiler warnings in ares_getnameinfo.c
 o fixed a buffer position init for TCP reads

not always zero!

ares_dns.h, which break c-ares on my Sparc64. Bit-wise operations in C
operate on logical values. And in any event the octets are already in
big-endian (aka network) byte order so they're being reversed (thus the
source of the breakage).

UDP even when a poll(2) or select(2) suggest otherwise.

things such as C++ compiler actually is a bad thing and since we don't need
that detection I added a work-around, much inspired by a previous patch by
Paolo Bonzini. This also shortens the configure script quite a lot.

c-ares call a callback on socket state changes. A better way than the
ares_getsock() to get full control over the socket state.

newer gcc versions that no longer defines "riscos".

Added constants that will be used by ares_getaddrinfo. Made ares_getnameinfo use the reentrant getservbyport (getservbyport_r) if it isavailable to ensure it works properly in a threaded environment

when getting the DNS server etc.

  Make UDP sockets non-blocking. I've confirmed that at least on Linux 2.4 a
  read event can come back from poll() on a valid SOCK_DGRAM socket but
  recv(2) will still block. This patch doesn't ignore EAGAIN in
  read_udp_packets(), though maybe it should. (This patch was edited by Daniel
  Stenberg and a new configure test was added (imported from curl's configure)
  to properly detect what non-blocking socket approach to use.)

  I'm not quite sure how this was happening, but I've been seeing PTR queries
  which seem to return empty responses. At least, they were empty when calling
  ares_expand_name() on the record. Here's a patch which guarantees to
  NUL-terminate the expanded name. The old behavior failed to NUL-terminate if
  len was 0, and this was causing strlen() to run past the end of the buffer
  after calling ares_expand_name() and getting ARES_SUCCESS as the return
  value. If q is not greater than *s then it's equal and *s is always
  allocated with at least one byte.

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Provided implementations of inet_net_pton and inet_pton from BIND for systems that do not include these functions. These will be necessary for CIDR support and IPv6 support.

first little steps towards IPv6 support!

  when they made Alpha's) uses /etc/svc.conf for the purpose fixed below for
  other OSes. He made c-ares check for and understand it if present.

- Now c-ares will use local host name lookup _before_ DNS resolving by default
  if nothing else is told.

  file to determine the sequence in which to search /etc/hosts and DNS.  So on
  systems where this order is defined by /etc/host.conf instead of a "lookup"
  entry in /etc/resolv.conf, C-ARES will always default to looking in DNS
  first, and /etc/hosts second.

  c-ares now looks at

  1) resolv.conf (for the "lookup" line);
  2) nsswitch.fon (for the "hosts:" line);
  3) host.conf (for the "order" line).

  First match wins.