On 07/04/2012 10:57 AM, Laurent Bercot wrote:

> 
>  You don't have to have *only* busybox on your embedded box.
>  Functionality that is not (yet) implemented in busybox can sometimes
> be found elsewhere.
> 
>  You could download and compile djbdns ( http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html )
> (you don't need to bother with daemontools and ucspi-tcp if all you
> want is a command line DNS client) and just keep the "dnsip" binary,
> which does exactly what you want. The binary is quite small.
> 
>  Guys, please remember that the point of busybox is to provide
> lightweight implementations of stuff that is only available as a
> GNU noodle plate. When lightweight implementations already exist,
> adding an applet to busybox isn't so important.
> 


but these bins are large, my applet adds at most 3kb to the total size.

Eial.
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