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@clue clue commented Feb 12, 2021

This changeset improves error handling when sending TCP/IP data to DNS server fails. This is a somewhat expected error condition as exhibited in our test suite. Additionally, there's a somewhat flaky error condition that can only be reproduced in some cases due to a kernel race condition on macOS.

Here's a quick link dump that describes this potential race condition in greater detail in other projects:

The gist is that with these changes applied, our test suite now works reliably also on macOS. Additionally, we include more error details to show the particular errno/errstr that caused the error, so this is something that benefits all platforms.

Together with #171, you're looking at ~16h of work. Hunting kernel race conditions is fun.

Builds on top of #171

@clue clue added this to the v1.5.0 milestone Feb 12, 2021
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