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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. | |
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jameshfisher.com
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| | | | | `getaddrinfo` ostensibly does DNS lookups. Sounds simple, but it uses more than 100 system calls! Let's trace the crazy path of address lookup on Linux. | |
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venam.net
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| | | An executable is something that causes a computer to perform some tasks according to encoded instructions. It's in opposition to a data file which must be parsed by another program to be meaningful, for example an image or video. The instructions are usually in machine code, read by the cpu and so dependent on the cpu architecture. An ex... | ||