Russ Cox

I haven't cleaned it up yet, but it certainly seems to work and it passes Brad's test TXT record. Does anyone object to changing LookupCNAME to succeed for hosts with...

Sorry, I don't understand. I had not realized AI_CANONNAME meant anything other than 'do a CNAME lookup'. What is the circumstance in which AI_CANONNAME consults something other than CNAME records,...

@slrz OK, it sounds like the difference is for hosts with A/AAAA records but no CNAME, such as 'google.com'. So LookupCNAME("google.com") = "google.com", nil, at least on Unix. But probably...

There are two possible options. 1. Make LookupCNAME everywhere match LookupCNAME on Windows today, which means it looks for CNAME records and that's it. 2. Make LookupCNAME match a combination...

> Exactly, but more importantly also LookupCNAME("amsterdam") = "amsterdam.example.com.", nil when invoked on a system with example.com in its DNS search list. This definitely is something I don't want to...

Based on the discussion above, this proposal seems like a **[likely accept](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#likely-accept)**. — rsc for the proposal review group

No change in consensus, so **[accepted](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#accepted)**. 🎉 This issue now tracks the work of implementing the proposal. — rsc for the proposal review group

/cc @golang/security

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...

What would the API be specifically?