Re: DNS issue when cloning over HTTP and HTTPS
On 18 June 2013, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote:
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> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, LCD 47 wrote:
>
> > Cloning with the git protocol works as expected.
> >
> >A search on the net shows people having the same problem more than an
> >year ago, and the solution there seems to imply that Git can't cope
> >with async DNS in curl:
> >
> >http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-ports-bugs/2012-05/msg00095.html
> >
> > Any idea?
>
> It's not a git problem really. When you build libcurl to use c-ares
> for asynch name resolving you unfortunately don't get a really feature
> complete replacement for all stuff the stock synch resolver can do and
> I believe you (and person from that link from last year) experience
> that.
>
> The solution for you is to:
>
> a) rebuild libcurl with another resolving backend (there's a synch and
> threaded asynch one to choose from)
>
> or
>
> b) fix c-ares to work "properly" in this scenario as well
Thank you for the quick and very helpful response. I rebuilt curl
with the threaded resolver, then I rebuilt Git, and now cloning over
HTTP works fine. I'll send a bug report to the maintainers of curl and
Git for my Linux distribution then.
/lcd