I'm writing the wonderful musl project today to open discussion about the future possibility of DNS search and domain keyword support. We've been using musl libc (by way of Alpine Linux) for new development of applications as containers that discover each other through DNS and other software defined networking.

In particular, we are starting to use applications like SkyDNS, Consul, and Kubernetes, all of which rely on local name resolution in some way using search paths. Many users of the Alpine Linux container image have also expressed their desire for this feature at https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/issues/8.

On the functional differences between glibc page, the domain and search keyword "Support may be added in the future if there is demand". So please consider this request an addition to whatever demand for the feature already exists.

Thank you for your time and great work on the musl libc project!

-Andy