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From: Daniel Neri <dne+musl@rb67.eu>
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 23:31:32 +0200
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Subject: [musl] Incompatible behaviour of res_query(3) w.r.t. NXDOMAIN

  Hello,


Musl=E2=80=99s res_query(3) returns success for a query that results in =
an NXDOMAIN response, which disagrees with other common implementations.

Simple test case: https://t.rb67.eu/res_query.c

On Debian Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD this program prints:

  error: Unknown host

but on Alpine Linux edge (musl v1.2.1):

  success (size 91)



Best regards,
Daniel