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.TH CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT 3 "17 Jun 2014" libcurl libcurl
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT \- life-time for DNS cache entries
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, long age);
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pass a long, this sets the timeout in seconds. Name resolves will be kept in
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.

We recommend users not to tamper with this option unless strictly necessary.
If you do, be careful of using large values that can make the cache size grow
significantly if many different host names are used within that timeout
period.

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.

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.

Since version 8.1.0, libcurl prunes entries from the DNS cache if it exceeds
30,000 entries no matter which timeout value is used.
.SH DEFAULT
60
.SH PROTOCOLS
All
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");

  /* only reuse addresses for a short time */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, 2L);

  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

  /* in this second request, the cache will not be used if more than
     two seconds have passed since the previous name resolve */
  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
Always
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE "(3), " CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS "(3), "
.BR CURLOPT_RESOLVE "(3), "