busybox dnsd to support domainname search
Ming-Ching Tiew
mctiew at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 11 10:13:21 UTC 2009
I have tested this with busybox 1.13.3 :-
the busybox dnsd does not support a fqdn search because of two reasons :-
1. The MAX_HOST_LEN is too short.
A typical fqdn is much longer than the default in the C file.
2. I am not the dns expert, but when a fqdn get delivered into dnsd,
www.xxx.yyy becomes www control-G xxxx control-C yyyy
ie the first dot becomes char 7, and second dot becomes char 3.
This limitation can be workaround by entering the ^G ^C into dnsd.conf.
These are just minor fixes which could be done to allow dnsd to support fqdn search from standard clients.
Regards.
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