Re:Caddy 0.10 Released
by weberc2 on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:27AM
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Are you sure it doesn't even depend on libc? Most Go programs do end up depending on libc by default; they have to be specially compiled to avoid the libc dep (IIRC, anything that depends on net or net/http or something of that sort).
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Re:Caddy 0.10 Released
by kevinburke on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:49AM
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Go ships with both a pure Go and a libc-based DNS resolver. Some systems (like OS X) don't let Go make DNS requests directly. For more see https://golang.org/pkg/net/#hdr-Name_Resolution
> Some systems (like OS X) don't let Go make DNS requests directly.
I don't think this is a reasonable summary of the situation on OS X. That being that if you turn the firewall on and then turn on block of incoming connections on 10.11 and earlier, responses seem to get dropped. Characterizing that as a blanket disallowing of direct DNS requests is misleading. (I'm not defending OS X here, it's just that summaries like this turn into cargo cults.)