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		kccqzy on Oct 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy Completely agree. Just use systemd-resolved which is the recommended way of doing DNS anyway.

guappa on Oct 17, 2023 [–]

And how do you communicate with systemd-resolved?

mambru on Oct 17, 2023 | [–]

Via DBus:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/org.freedes...

guappa on Oct 17, 2023 | | [–]

dbus is just a protocol that needs something else to actually transfer the data.

Normally, that's a socket in /run/dbus/system_bus_socket

kccqzy on Oct 17, 2023 | | [–]

And guess what. A UNIX socket does not use DNS or the damned getaddrinfo() function that's the ire of the article.

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