diff -urN -x .svn ../c-ares-stock-1.3.2/ares.h ./ares.h
--- ../c-ares-stock-1.3.2/ares.h	Wed Dec  6 11:28:12 2006
+++ ./ares.h	Wed Dec  6 11:49:07 2006
@@ -164,6 +164,14 @@
   void *sock_state_cb_data;
 };
 
+/** Public available config (readonly) interface for ares_get_config(). */
+struct ares_config_info {
+	int timeout;
+	int tries;
+	int numservers;
+	char **servers;
+};
+
 struct hostent;
 struct timeval;
 struct sockaddr;
@@ -216,7 +224,7 @@
 void ares_free_string(void *str);
 void ares_free_hostent(struct hostent *host);
 const char *ares_strerror(int code);
-
+int ares_get_config(struct ares_config_info *d, ares_channel c);
 #ifdef  __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff -urN -x .svn ../c-ares-stock-1.3.2/ares_init.c ./ares_init.c
--- ../c-ares-stock-1.3.2/ares_init.c	Wed Dec  6 11:28:12 2006
+++ ./ares_init.c	Wed Dec  6 11:49:07 2006
@@ -1079,3 +1079,23 @@
     pat->mask.addr.addr4.s_addr = htonl(IN_CLASSC_NET);
 }
 #endif
+
+int ares_get_config(struct ares_config_info *d, ares_channel c)
+{
+int i;
+char *p;
+
+	memset(d, 0, sizeof(struct ares_config_info));
+	
+	d->timeout = c->timeout;
+	d->tries = c->tries;
+	d->numservers = c->nservers;
+	d->servers = calloc(sizeof(char *), c->nservers);
+	for (i = 0; i < c->nservers; i++)
+	{
+		p = inet_ntoa(c->servers[i].addr);
+		d->servers[i] = p ? strdup(p) : NULL;
+	}
+
+	return ARES_SUCCESS;
+}