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libc/resolv: Switch default to loopback address
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Authored by des on Sat, Jan 31, 12:00 PM.
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Summary

If no resolver configuration was found, we would fall back to INADDR_ANY
and IN6ADDR_ANY. This made sense when it was first written thirty or
forty years ago but not today, especially since connecting to INADDR_ANY
or IN6ADDR_ANY is no longer supported. Switch to the loopback address
and simplify the code.

Note that (as the pre-existing comment in the code states) running
without a resolver configuration is not really supported. Still, if
we're going to have a hardcoded fallback, it might as well work.

PR: 291790
MFC after: 1 week

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