> I don’t see why glibc would have to do that inside a call to getaddrinfo. can’t it do that once at library initialization? If it were a library dedicated to

> I don’t see why glibc would have to do that inside a call to getaddrinfo. can’t it do that once at library initialization? If it were a library dedicated to DNS, sure, but glibc is used by nearly every process in the system, including many which will never call getaddrinfo.