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Looking at it again, I'm guessing the part where sum.golang.org/lookup tries to query my behind-netbird server is why the lookup is failing. But is there a way to gave Go not rely on an external service like that? Or have it run the query locally instead of from the sum.golang.org server?
This is my first guess, and a facet of my single biggest criticism of Go: the module system they added has an enabled-by-default policy of phoning home to Google servers, which turned an otherwise decent toolchain into spyware.
The GOPRIVATE environment variable may be what you need to avoid that error.
https://go.dev/ref/mod#private-module-privacy
https://go.dev/ref/mod#environment-variables
Yup this fixed it -- adding
GOPRIVATE=code.mydomain.comas an environment variable allowedgo getandgo mod tidyto work with my private repos.Is there a way to set this globally, or to configure Go to always treat any references to
code.mydomain.comas a private URL?The
go env -wcommand can make most go environment variable settings persistent for the current user. Alternatively, you could set the environment variable in your shell's login script.Be sure to read go's docs for individual environment variables, because go doesn't respect all methods of setting them in every case. (For example, it ignores certain approaches to disabling its telemetry. How convenient for Google.)