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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:24:34 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: Satadru Pramanik <satadru@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: musl getaddr info breakage on older kernels

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 08:17:36AM -0500, Satadru Pramanik wrote:
> Looks like reverting that commit works, but interestingly, only
> stochastically.
> 
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> getaddrinfo: Try again
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> AF_INET6: 2607:f8b0:4006:81c::200e
> AF_INET: 142.250.80.46
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> AF_INET6: 2607:f8b0:4006:81c::200e
> AF_INET: 142.250.80.46
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> getaddrinfo: Try again
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> AF_INET6: 2607:f8b0:4006:81c::200e
> AF_INET: 142.250.80.46
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> AF_INET6: 2607:f8b0:4006:81c::200e
> AF_INET: 142.250.80.46
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> getaddrinfo: Try again
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> AF_INET6: 2607:f8b0:4006:81c::200e
> AF_INET: 142.250.80.46
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> getaddrinfo: Try again
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> getaddrinfo: Try again
> chronos@...alhost
> /usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_getaddrinfo_test.20220217125953.dir $
> ../musl_getaddrinfo_test google.com
> AF_INET6: 2607:f8b0:4006:81c::200e
> AF_INET: 142.250.80.46

Can you tcpdump these again and see if there's network traffic when it
fails? This sounds more like the nameserver being unreliable.

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