On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 08:50, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > As such, I'd need to a name lookup of the servername the user provided > me with, preferably in a shell command, so that when root-on-NBD is > used, I can provide the user with a working command line (i.e., an > nbdroot= parameter that specifies the server by IP address, not > hostname).
I am not aware of any easy way for doing that but I'd suggest you to take a look in BusyBox to see what it can offer you to solve this. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAP9ODKoeijM0Gf=Fs=h9rscmpn9j_k66o05w+fw1n59tl56...@mail.gmail.com