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jameshfisher.com
| | ariadne.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.
| | venam.nixers.net
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| | Resolving hostnames (DNS?) might not seem like it, but it's complicated. Let's take a moment to see if we can at least demystify what happens on the client side instead of seeing it as a big tangled mess of configurations, libraries, and tools.
| | flokli.de
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| | Providing NSS modules in a standard, ABI-neutral way without the caching issues of glibc-nscd
| | www.cyphar.com
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| A deep-dive on why ping was broken in openSUSE's Docker images and how we solved the problem, as well as some of the tyre-fires that spawned from this fix.