[chomp]

I smiled at this, though the Sagan quote "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" springs to mind. At some point to be reasonable you have to cut off the lower layers of abstraction or else it's madness.

Unbound leans on libresolv, so I don't think it's cheating to lean on external libraries - most of the hard part about resolvers is all the crufty RFCs you have to support anyway, not the basic nuts and bolts of resolving an A record.

[LinuxBender]

Somewhat off-topic: Adding song [1] for completeness sake and so that it is stuck in other peoples heads too.

[1] - https://amorningfilledwith400billionsuns.ytmnd.com/