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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3 index 7b2e37242..bb8595531 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3 @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ memory and used for this number of seconds. Set to zero to completely disable caching, or set to -1 to make the cached entries remain forever. By default, libcurl caches this info for 60 seconds. -The name resolve functions of various libc implementations don't re-read name +The name resolve functions of various libc implementations do not re-read name server information unless explicitly told so (for example, by calling \fIres_init(3)\fP). This may cause libcurl to keep using the older server even if DHCP has updated the server info, and this may look like a DNS cache issue to the casual libcurl-app user. -Note that DNS entries have a "TTL" property but libcurl doesn't use that. This +Note that DNS entries have a "TTL" property but libcurl does not use that. This DNS cache timeout is entirely speculative that a name will resolve to the same address for a certain small amount of time into the future. .SH DEFAULT |