To resolve an address, it needs a communication between local host and name server. When the routes changed or something else makes the address being unreachable, or there is loss of UDP datagram, there will be a high delay (maybe the goroutine will never wake up again).

What I can do now is use net.DialContext() with a deadline or net.Dialer. But when I want to only resolve the host name/domain, net.Resolve*Addr() or net.Lookup*() never timeout.

I read source code of net and I found net.Resolve*Addr() does have some code about context:

/src/net/tcpsock.go:64

    56	func ResolveTCPAddr(net, addr string) (*TCPAddr, error) {
    57		switch net {
    58		case "tcp", "tcp4", "tcp6":
    59		case "": // a hint wildcard for Go 1.0 undocumented behavior
    60			net = "tcp"
    61		default:
    62			return nil, UnknownNetworkError(net)
    63		}
    64		addrs, err := internetAddrList(context.Background(), net, addr)
    65		if err != nil {
    66			return nil, err
    67		}
    68		return addrs.first(isIPv4).(*TCPAddr), nil
    69	}

Can we export the context argument?

Maybe add something like net.ResolveTCPAddrContext() ? or an interface called, maybe, Resolver?

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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

1.7.4

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH=""
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/lib/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build628929889=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"