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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by zajio1am on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:12PM (#36936537)
Standards are not laws, they are reasonably well-written documents describing behavior that is supposed to be interoperable. If, for some reason, that is not true (perhaps because the standard is ambiguous, obsolete or some other reason), ensuring that there is interoperability is more important than just keeping it to the letter of the standard.

See RFC 1925, The twelve networking truths:

(1) It has to work

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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by rcme on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:58PM (#36937752)
Yes, it has to work. That’s exactly the point the person you’re responding to is making. There are plenty of things libc doesn’t provide. Software authors find way to provide functionality to make their software work regardless. How is DNS different? Just because you’re used to one specific implementation?
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