[Peeweelinux] resolve a domain name

[Barry Gershenfeld]

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