From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Maximum number of nameservers in resolv.conf
To: Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it>
Cc: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>, tech@openbsd.org, Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>, eric@cvs.openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:36:03 -0700

Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it> wrote:

> Actually, I didn't specifically want to increase or decrease any of
> those values. I just wanted to know if it was normal that there were
> different values between internal libc ASR_MAXNS and resolv.h MAXNS.

Yes that is a bit odd.

eric, do you want to comment on that?

We do have some magic to support resolvd(8), maybe it is related to this.