Hello, I discovered a potential problem in getaddrinfo/__lookup_name. When calling getaddrinfo with an IP string not matching the specified family, name_from_numeric() in __lookup_name() will not recognize it and the external dns resolver will be used. So the following code: const struct addrinfo hints = { .ai_flags = AI_ADDRCONFIG, .ai_family = AF_INET, .ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM, }; getaddrinfo("::1", NULL, &hints, &result); will actually succeed instead of returning EAI_NONAME, and perform a "A ::1" query. Some misbehaving dns servers will then answer with 0.0.0.1. I don’t know if this behavior is desirable. If not, I’m still not sure where this should be fixed. Maybe should we prevent sending A and AAAA dns queries with IP as hostname in __res_mkquery() ? — Julien