[BusyBox] Problem with networking and busybox

[Goetz Bock]

On Tue, Dec 04 '01 at 20:55, Alan Chandler wrote:
> [ ... I'm using busybox linked with glibc6, and have busybox, libc6
>   and ld.so on my boot disk, but ]
> ANY attempt to use nslookup (again busybox version) seems to fail with 
> "***unknown host***" (I may have the number of * wrong), even piglet or 
> piglet.home which should be looked up in the /etc/hosts file)
> 
> What am I doing wrong? - I can't see what I need to do differently than on my 
> full system to get networking to work
You've been fooled by glibc6. While ldd will tell you, you've all needed
libraries, you actually do not. glibc requires some of the libnss*
libraries. As they are neither small, nor do i know which ones you need
at last, you might try to go for uclibc, what comes wich (simple) name
resolution capabilities and is smaller then glibc.

    Goetz.