gethostbyname Resolver Error

[walter harms]

hi Andrei,
i am sorry that you have that problem, personally, i would try the ulibc mailing list.
This is the busybox ml. A tool that provides stuff in /bin like ls,cp,mv etc.
it *can* use uclib but also any other libc.

re,
 walter



Andrei Popov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running BusyBox on WRT54G as part of OpenWRT firmware.  WRT
> serves a local WLAN, being connected via a leased line to ISP, and
> then through a PPTP VPN to Internet.  ISP runs several VPN gateway
> servers, all are replying to a common host name -- let's call it
> vpn.corbina.net but with different IP addresses -- 195.14.38.x.
> 
> Up until recently there were fewer than 20 servers in the VPN pool,
> but a few days ago ISP has added several new servers to cope with the
> load, pushing the total number of them to 23.  From that moment
> uClib's gethostbyname stopped resolving names to IP addresses and
> returns an unkown resolver error:
> 
> $ ping vpn.corbina.net
> ping: vpn.corbina.net: Resolver error
> 
> $ nslookup vpn.corbina.net
> Server:         localhost
> Address:        127.0.0.1
> 
> nslookup: vpn.corbina.net: Resolver error
> 
> It would seem that because of a large number of entries returned by
> the DNS server, gethostbyname fails to provide an name to IP mapping.
> Are there any known work-arounds to this?
> 
> 
> Thanks & please keep me on cc, as I am not subscribed to the mailing list.
> 
> Andrei
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