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libcares-1.34.8

asynchronous resolver library

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Description

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT.

Package information

Ports path
net/libcares
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Categories
net, devel
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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