Does Busybox contain a lightweight hostname lookup applet? I looked, and could not find one.
The "host" command would fit the bill, I think. I feed it the hostname that needs to be resolved, and some DNS server IP addresses to use, and it performs the DNS protocol, returning the IP address(es) of the hostname. Alternatives to "host" are "nslookup" and "getent". It seems that "nslookup" is too closely tied to BIND, and "getent" is too closely tied to glibc. Ideally, I could use this hostname lookup applet to look up hostnames and convert them to IP addresses, without needing to install a full NSS library as needed by glibc. That would save considerable space. Then, it should be trivial to pass this to wget, so it can supply the correct "Host:" HTTP header, when connecting to the IP address. Does such a thing already exist? Thanks! Josh _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
