Comment 1:

What does
host -t cname www.google.com.
print on your machine?  How about without "-t cname"?

Comment 2:

$ host -t cname www.google.com.
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com.
$ host  www.google.com.
www.google.com has address 67.142.161.38
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com.
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com.
$

Comment 3:

How about this C program?
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define nil ((void*)0)
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int g;
    struct addrinfo *res, hints;
    
    memset(&hints, 0, sizeof hints);
    hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME | AI_V4MAPPED | AI_ALL;
    g = getaddrinfo("www.google.com", nil, &hints, &res);
    if(g != 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", gai_strerror(g));
        exit(2);
    }
    for(; res; res=res->ai_next) {
        printf("%d %d %d %d %s\n", res->ai_family, res->ai_socktype,
res->ai_protocol, res->ai_addrlen, res->ai_canonname);
    }
    exit(0);
}

Owner changed to @rsc.

Status changed to Accepted.

Comment 4:

2 1 6 16 www.google.com
2 2 17 16 (null)
2 3 0 16 (null)

Comment 5:

This is one of the many reasons we omit that test
during gotest -short (and all.bash).
The IP address that your host output returned is
not actually a Google server:
$ host 67.142.161.38
38.161.142.67.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer host671420038161.direcway.com.
$
Your ISP (or its ISP, or ...) is intercepting the lookup for
www.google.com and providing false records, probably
because it wants to intercept your search traffic.
Go is just returning what the (false) DNS records say,
and they are wrong, so the test fails.
One possible workaround is to use the Google public DNS
servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 instead of the ones suggested
by your ISP.  http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Status changed to Invalid.

Comment 6:

Using Google Public DNS:
$ gotest
rm -f _test/net.a
rm -f _test/net.a
gopack grc _test/net.a _gotest_.6  _cgo_defun.6 _cgo_import.6 cgo_linux.cgo2.o
cgo_unix.cgo2.o _cgo_export.o
PASS