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I long for a news article/PSA explaining how name resolution differs with musl compared to glibc This one characteristic has made me a hero, over and over, and
by bravetraveler 3y ago
I long for a news article/PSA explaining how name resolution differs with musl compared to glibc
This one characteristic has made me a hero, over and over, and I'm honestly tired of it.
I'd think twice before using it. What you hope to gain and how else they may be achieved. Registry caches are easy to deploy and don't get enough love.
Any sufficiently complex service will find oddities, and you might need some graybeard wizard to sort it out.
- rendaw 3y agoAre there differences beyond what's mentioned here? https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc.html https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc... in Name Resolver/DNS?
- bravetraveler 3y agoAye, for example - how /etc/hosts and precedence plays out. With glibc this normally falls to nsswitch. Sadly I can't remember much about musl - I'm too tired and I've been focused elsewhere lately. It's notably different in terms of preferred order between files/DNS, also with 'conflicting' repeats (aka lazy round robin). Beyond that, my point is more about awareness. The developers involved were not aware of what you've provided... or what's not mentioned