Harald, On 07/08/2012 12:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> It looks to me, you still mix up some information. Here we talked about > a DNS query program (e.g. host or dnsip) and now you are asking about > the libc function getaddrinfo. I'm not sure if I understand, what are > you asking? > > getaddrinfo is a libc function of the same family as gethostbyname. we've agreed in an off list mail thread that getent is the right course of action here, why does dnsip should change it? > Providing the IP address does not mean it contain explicit DNS query > code. The code of ping uses simple IP lookup (that is the libc > function). In addition to showing up that information ping send's out > network packages to measure round trip time. No good candidate, as it > produces extra network traffic if you only want to get your IP address. I still fail to see the issue, why this is different then previously decided? > Sure, but there are many people who do not like to clutter the Busybox > binary with many applets that not of wide spread interest or at least > modeled after an widely used upstream package. I have no problem with that. > So your chance to get a simple applet named 'gethostbyname' into > Busybox is really low. It only gets better, if you hit a wider amount > of users need. I'm not in it for the sole notion of getting an applet into busybox, I've encountered a strange issue and found a solution, as I like to help others, I've decided to offer the applet to the community, if the community doesn't want my applet, that is ok, I have no problems with that. > You forgot to post the versions of Busybox. Looks to me your System 1 > uses an older version of Busybox. As far as I know newer versions of > Busybox corrected / extended the output of nslookup to allow for > multiple addresses. both use the same busybox 1.19.2 Eial. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
