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Re:Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy by guappa on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:25AM (#37911659)
And how do you communicate with systemd-resolved?
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Re:Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy by mambru on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:16AM (#37912394)
Via DBus:

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

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Re:Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy by guappa on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:27AM (#37914692)
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

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Re:Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy by kccqzy on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:09PM (#37918176)
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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