getaddrinfo sucks. everything else is much worse

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DNS is one of the critical building blocks of the internet and of the modern web. For the longest time the only way for Firefox to resolve a DNS domain was by using getaddrinfo. What’s remarkable about this function is that it’s implemented on Linux, Windows, MacOS - even Android. It has the same signature, and works in roughly the same way, even though the implementation in these operating…

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