On 2012-07-03 05:11, Baruch Siach wrote:
Hi Eial,
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:57:50AM +0300, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
I'd like to propose a new applet, gethostbyname.
all this applet does is to get a host name and return the first ip address.
IMHO, this applet should be called 'host', just like the similarly named BIND
utility.
No, they're different things: BIND's `host' utility specifically queries
DNS--and only DNS:
it doesn't resolve names via /etc/hosts, NIS, mDNS, etc.
gethostbyname() uses whatever resolver backends are available in libc (i.e.:
nsswitch).
So it might be a good idea for Eial to model this new applet on glibc's "getent"
command
(both in name and behaviour).
--
"Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."
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