Hi Rich ! > On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 05:36:08PM +0200, ra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Full ack! Are you able to provide a new getent applet (deleting the > > current nslookup)? (Sorry currently can't do development work due to > > personal/health restrictions).
> I question the benefit of deleting a utility that some people might be > using, even if it's doing slightly the wrong thing. Sorry, I expressed it wrong. so let me clarify: Change "delete the current nslookup" to "making current nslookup a proposal for removement / replacement", what was my intention. > If anybody wants the "real" nslookup behavior, DNS is a pretty > trivial protocol and it should be easy to add a correct applet at > the same time instead of just removing the incorrect one. As it seams to me that nslookup is a dieing command and it is more and more replaced by the host command, we should create a host command applet for Busybox in this case (IMO) ... or add dnsip? ... otherwise correct. Replacing wrong applet with correctly working code is better then simply removing. I based my decision of removal on the assumption that no one is willing to add a full DNS query directly to Busybox (instead using e.g. dnsip - like mentioned by Laurent). > Parsing and treating resolv.conf properly is actually probably the > bulk of the work; sending, receiving, and printing the DNS result is > completely trivial. Fine, looks a bit to me, as you are pointing up to create a full version of a host command to Busybox ... pretty nice ;-) Harald _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox