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What does `getaddrinfo` do?
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Reverse-Engineering a Linux Process with strace - Psycho Cod3r
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| | The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signals so we can pinpoint your location. And just like that, we can trace signals as they bounce around the Matrix, whether it's the Matrix that simulates Earth in 1999 or the Matrix that generates pretty pictures on...
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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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Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup - Part III - zwischenzugs
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| | InAnatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup - Part II covered: nsswitch /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf pingvshoststyle lookups and inAnatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup - Part III covered: systemdand itsnetworkingservice ifupandifdown dhclient resolvconf and ended up here: A (roughly) accurate map of what's going on Unfortunately, that's not the end of the story. There's still more things...
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Tunnelbroker to the rescue
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| After nicely delivering native IPv6 connectivity for 3 years, my Internet provider Solnet made some changes in their backbone config on January 31st whi...