[PATCH] new applet gethostbyname
ralda at gmx.de
ralda at gmx.de
Sun Jul 8 10:55:03 UTC 2012
Hi Ralf !
> By the way, the applet nslookup is misleading, because it uses
> getaddrinfo instead of a DNS query. As a consequence, there are even
> answers from non existing DNS-servers.
Whops ... so Busybox nslookup does the job of 'getent hosts' (or one of
its alikes) ... and not a separate DNS query as expected.
Hence nslookup shall definitely provide the information required by
Eial and may be a candidate for a '-s' short output format extension
(which may be a useful scripting extension).
Harald
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