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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