Subject: Re: bug#58520: Persistent failure to DNS-lookup hostname

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:55:52 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:41:00 -0500
> 
> IOW, `res_init` only affects the running program.

I didn't know that, sorry.  (I didn't know DNS can affect a single
program.)

If we want something like that in Emacs, we should probably find a
more portable way of doing it.