Hey
Here's another Debian bug report on curl that clearly actually is about
c-ares...
-- / daniel.haxx.se ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 19:01:30 +0500 Subject: Bug#478864: curl: (6) Resolving host timed out: Package: curl Version: 7.18.1-1 Severity: important Tags: ipv6 After recent upgrade curl stopped working: % curl http://www.debian.org/ curl: (6) Resolving host timed out: www.debian.org After adding ipv4 nameserver entry to /etc/resolv.conf but with ipv6-only http_proxy curl exits with % curl http://www.debian.org/ curl: (5) Could not resolve host: www.debian.org (DNS server returned answer with no data) This is probably caused by libc-ares support (see also #476735) and downgrading libcurl3 to 7.18.0-1+b1 returns curl to working state. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages curl depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcurl3 7.18.1-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime curl recommends no packages. -- no debconf informationReceived on 2008-05-19