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Who is resolving my names?
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| | A blog about software.
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the tragedy of gethostbyname | Ariadne's Space
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| | A frequent complaint expressed on a certain website about Alpine is related to the deficiencies regarding the musl DNS resolver when querying large zones. In response, it is usually mentioned that applications which are expecting reliable DNS lookups should be using a dedicated DNS library for this task, not the getaddrinfo or gethostbyname APIs, but this is usually rebuffed by comments saying that these APIs are fine to use because they are allegedly reliable on GNU/Linux.
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Don't use `nscd`
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| | `nscd`, a local DNS resolver within `glibc`, is non-standard. Instead, use a local DNS server like `named` or `dnscache`.
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TV Trailer Friday | Henchman-4-Hire
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| It's Friday. The weekend is here. So I thought I'd share a couple of really fun TV trailers that came out this week. First up is the new trailer for the sixth and final season of What We Do In The Shadows! Such a fun show, and the final season looks just as good as...