This is likely a response to Alpine not supporting DNS protocol fully (RF9210 to be precise). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30642632 https://news.ycombin

This is likely a response to Alpine not supporting DNS protocol fully (RF9210 to be precise). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30642632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30642632 The blog talks about "use of DNS for bulk data distribution, such as in DNSSEC, DKIM and other applications", but it's not just that -- even for a most basic use, "ask a hostname from user and connect to that host", musl will fail if the response contains too many IP addresses.