c-ares - A C library for asynchronous DNS requests

c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests. It is an asynchronous resolver library. It is intended for applications which need to perform DNS queries without blocking, or need to perform multiple DNS queries in parallel. The primary examples of such applications are servers which communicate with multiple clients and programs with graphical user interfaces. c-ares is being used by libcurl, UnreadlIRCd, BZFlag, Xymon, libevnet, gLite, aria2, sipsak, Second Life, Wireshark, node.js and more.