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Re: Require packages to build without any configured DNS



On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 09:01:31AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> >...
> > I think dnspython's previous approach was correct: just like glibc, musl, and
> > other libraries, if /etc/resolv.conf is missing they should treat that as
> > though it specified a nameserver on localhost.
> 
> How libraries implement a standard high-level C interface is not 
> necessarily relevant for how a DNS library implements a low-level 
> interface.

It seems to me that upstream should just not raise
NoResolverConfiguration, and instead not configure any nameservers.

Then, if someone tries to resolve without any configured nameservers,
NoNameservers will be raised, which is the same thing that happens if
there are no good nameservers, and is less inconsistent with the
previous behavior.


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