busybox dnsd to support domainname search
walter harms
wharms at bfs.de
Sat Apr 11 12:47:48 UTC 2009
Ming-Ching Tiew schrieb:
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> I have tested this with busybox 1.13.3 :-
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> the busybox dnsd does not support a fqdn search because of two reasons :-
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> 1. The MAX_HOST_LEN is too short.
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> A typical fqdn is much longer than the default in the C file.
you may like to choose MAXHOSTNAMELEN
but again that is the "hostname" not the FQDN.
re,
wh
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> 2. I am not the dns expert, but when a fqdn get delivered into dnsd,
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> www.xxx.yyy becomes www control-G xxxx control-C yyyy
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> ie the first dot becomes char 7, and second dot becomes char 3.
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> This limitation can be workaround by entering the ^G ^C into dnsd.conf.
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> These are just minor fixes which could be done to allow dnsd to support fqdn search from standard clients.
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> Regards.
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