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A thread-aware DNS resolver library written in Ruby
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macos: support multiple system resolvers like C #18

Open maxfierke opened 2 years ago

maxfierke commented 2 years ago

On macOS, libresolv supports multiple resolvers. This allows users, VPN clients, etc. to delegate queries for certain domains to other resolvers, in addition to the "Super Resolver" specified by /etc/resolv.conf. An example of this would be using something like dnsmasq or launchdns to resolve a Special Use Domain (described by RFC 6761) for local development like *.localhost or *.test

This is supported transparently via the gethostbyname and getaddrinfo C calls, but when replacing use of those APIs w/ Resolv, these resolutions no longer happen automatically.

If I can find a link to the respective man page on macOS about this functionality, I can post that here for review from anyone who doesn't have access to macOS.

hanazuki commented 10 months ago

The "Search Strategy" section of resolver(5) on MacOS 14 says that each configured resolver has an associated domain name, which is specified implicitly by the filename in /etc/resolver/* or explicitly by the domain line in the file. DNS queries are routed to the best matching resolver(s), if any, in the order of search_order, or otherwise routed to the default resolver (that is, the one configuredavailable in /etc/resolv.conf).

To make resolv work like the macOS system resolver, I suppose we need to re-implement the DNS router functionality.