c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests (including name resolves)

C89 compatibility, MIT licensed, builds for and runs on POSIX, Windows, Netware, Android and many more operating systems.

c-ares 1.19.1 (22-may-2023) GPG Changelog

You can also download old packages

Discussions around c-ares, its use and its development, are held on the c-ares mailing list. Please, do not mail volunteers privately about c-ares. Mailing list archive

Security vulnerabilities are treated according to our security procedure, please email c-ares-security at haxx.se if you suspect one. Previous security vulnerabilities.

Browse the git repository on github.

Check out from git like this:

 git clone https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares.git

Contributions have been made by these friendly people.

c-ares is being used by libcurl, UnreadlIRCd, BZFlag, Xymon, libevnet, gLite, aria2, sipsak, Second Life, Wireshark, node.js Apache Arrow and more

Please let us know if you use it!