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Persistent failure to DNS-lookup hostname

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Message #38 received at 58520 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 58520 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, visuweshm <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#58520: Persistent failure to DNS-lookup hostname
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:30:45 +0200

> Cc: 58520 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:27:10 -0500
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > P.S. It would be nice to have that patch that you mentioned that added a
> >      function that fixes the broken requests.
> 
> I use the patch below.
> When Emacs gets into this weird state, I do `M-: (res-init) RET` after
> which I can connect again.

Why do you need Emacs for that?  Write a small program that calls
res_init, and that's it.

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