On Sep 29 2016, Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote:
> Luckily, glibc has a way to disable DNS queries without LD_PRELOAD trickery:
>
> $ RES_OPTIONS=attempts:0 wget http://www.example.com/
Wow, I wonder many people have used this innocent environment variable
name and been bitten by weird network failures.. Couldn't they at least
call it LIBC_RES_OPTIONS?
Best,
-Nikolaus, shaking his head
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