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My personal opinion is that people were trigger happy on the close button because the phrasing of its title suggested a disconnect in the basic understanding of the topic matter at hand. (Does HTTP get method rely on port 53 for DNS resolution?)

One way of fixing the question without closing or migrating it would have been for someone to edit the title for you. Unfortunately, there are two directions that people could run with here: they could either focus on what you spend most of your energy trying to understand (where DNS fits in with the NSS lookup process), or the actual topic you were seeking to understand, which is the how HTTP/1.1 name based virtual hosts interact with gethostbyname().

It's a sad truth that the more effort a person has to put into understanding how to "fix" your question, the more likely they are to reach for the simpler solution of closing it instead. :(

You may benefit from reading about X-Y problemsX-Y problems if you haven't already. I've had people tell me that this is a very helpful read on getting into the right mindset for asking questions on SE in general.

My personal opinion is that people were trigger happy on the close button because the phrasing of its title suggested a disconnect in the basic understanding of the topic matter at hand. (Does HTTP get method rely on port 53 for DNS resolution?)

One way of fixing the question without closing or migrating it would have been for someone to edit the title for you. Unfortunately, there are two directions that people could run with here: they could either focus on what you spend most of your energy trying to understand (where DNS fits in with the NSS lookup process), or the actual topic you were seeking to understand, which is the how HTTP/1.1 name based virtual hosts interact with gethostbyname().

It's a sad truth that the more effort a person has to put into understanding how to "fix" your question, the more likely they are to reach for the simpler solution of closing it instead. :(

You may benefit from reading about X-Y problems if you haven't already. I've had people tell me that this is a very helpful read on getting into the right mindset for asking questions on SE in general.

My personal opinion is that people were trigger happy on the close button because the phrasing of its title suggested a disconnect in the basic understanding of the topic matter at hand. (Does HTTP get method rely on port 53 for DNS resolution?)

One way of fixing the question without closing or migrating it would have been for someone to edit the title for you. Unfortunately, there are two directions that people could run with here: they could either focus on what you spend most of your energy trying to understand (where DNS fits in with the NSS lookup process), or the actual topic you were seeking to understand, which is the how HTTP/1.1 name based virtual hosts interact with gethostbyname().

It's a sad truth that the more effort a person has to put into understanding how to "fix" your question, the more likely they are to reach for the simpler solution of closing it instead. :(

You may benefit from reading about X-Y problems if you haven't already. I've had people tell me that this is a very helpful read on getting into the right mindset for asking questions on SE in general.

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My personal opinion is that people were trigger happy on the close button because the phrasing of its title suggested a disconnect in the basic understanding of the topic matter at hand. (Does HTTP get method rely on port 53 for DNS resolution?)

One way of fixing the question without closing or migrating it would have been for someone to edit the title for you. Unfortunately, there are two directions that people could run with here: they could either focus on what you spend most of your energy trying to understand (where DNS fits in with the NSS lookup process), or the actual topic you were seeking to understand, which is the how HTTP/1.1 name based virtual hosts interact with gethostbyname().

It's a sad truth that the more effort a person has to put into understanding how to "fix" your question, the more likely they are to reach for the simpler solution of closing it instead. :(

You may benefit from reading about X-Y problems if you haven't already. I've had people tell me that this is a very helpful read on getting into the right mindset for asking questions on SE in general.