{"id":24817,"date":"2024-06-06T22:28:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=24817"},"modified":"2024-06-06T22:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T20:28:28","slug":"bye-bye-hosting-c-ares-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2024\/06\/06\/bye-bye-hosting-c-ares-web\/","title":{"rendered":"bye bye hosting c-ares web"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At some point during 2003, my friend Bj\u00f8rn Reese (from Dancer<\/a>) and I were discussing back and forth and planning to maybe create our own asynchronous DNS\/name resolver library. We felt that the synchronous APIs provided by gethostname()<\/code> and getaddrinfo()<\/code> were too limiting in for example curl. We could really use something that would not block the caller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While thinking about this and researching what was already out there, I found the ares<\/strong> library written by Greg Hudson. It was an effort that was almost exactly what we had been looking for. I decided I would not make a new library but rather join the ares project and help polish that further to perfect it – for curl and for whoever else who wants such functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was soon made clear to me that the original author of this library did not want the patches I deemed were necessary, including changes to make it more portable to Windows and beyond. I felt I had no choice but to fork the project and instead I created c-ares<\/strong>. It would show its roots but not be the same. The c<\/code> could be for curl, but it also made it into an English word like “cares” which was enough for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first c-ares release I did was called version 1.0.0, published in February 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ares project did not have a website, but I am of the opinion that a proper open source project needs one, to provide downloads and not the least its documentation etc. A home. I created a basic c-ares website and since then I have hosted it on my server on the behalf of the c-ares project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The was available as c-ares.haxx.se<\/strong> for many years but was recently moved over to c-ares.org<\/a><\/strong>. It has never been a traffic magnet so quite easy to manage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the backseat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, I have not participated much in the c-ares development. I have had my hands full with curl while the c-ares project has been in a pretty good shape and has been cared for in an excellent manner by Brad House and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have mostly just done the occasional website admin stuff and releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Starting now<\/em>, the c-ares website is no longer hosted by me. A twenty years streak is over and the website is now instead hosted on GitHub. I own the domain name and I run the DNS for it, but that is all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan is that Brad is also going to take over the release duty. Brad is awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n

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