[Peeweelinux] resolve a domain name

[Troy Engel]

Additionally, in case the obvious has been overlooked, you need a file 
/etc/resolv.conf with the desired nameservers, eg:

search foo.com
search bar.com
nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 192.168.0.37

When apps using libnss_dns fire up, the libs use this file as it's 
config of which nameservers to talk to...

-te

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> There's a binary package called "dig" or "nslookup" that you can use:
> 
> "dig domain.name" will return the ip address in the ANSWER line
> "dig -x ip.add.res.ss" will return the domain name
> 
> You can also use nslookup, but it's deprecated.
> 
> 
> -CB
> 
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> 
> 
> Barry Gershenfeld wrote:
> 
>> What is the simplest way to resolve a domain name to an IP address?
>> Seems you can get someone else's dns server to do the work for
>> you so there should be little for the embedded system to do.  I didn't 
>> really want to install bind or similar especially
>> if it's big.  But I didn't even find anything called bind
>> or 'named' in a package search.
>>
>> Seems to me you guys building web browser kiosks would know
>> something about this.
>>
>> Barry
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