Re: [Bug-wget] Anyone want to add libcares support to wget?

[Ángel González]

On 16/03/16 15:35, Ben Greear wrote:
> wget can already bind to a local IP.  It might be nice to add support 
> for SO_BINDTODEVICE, but not sure
> it is required for what I need.
>
> The rest of your suggestions are total hacks!

The place for setting this is the resolver. It's not reasonable to 
expect every application to be changed in order to link with a different 
resolver just for this tiny feature.
I would prefer that libc provided instead of relying on LD_PRELOAD, though.


> Anyway, I'm quite sure of what I want, and it should not be horribly 
> difficult
> to accomplish.  I'll work on it if no one else is interested.
You look too much like xkcd's 1172 LongtimeUser4.
Good that you are willing to do the work, though.

Best regards