[BusyBox] gethostbyname problems?

[Raghu BK]

Kevin,

I came across similar problem. And I found that it was due to a mismatch in 
the toolchain. In  my case busybox, tools in ramdisk were all built using 
uClibc and my applications were built using glibc. When I built everything 
using uClibc, the "gethostbyname, getprotobyname, getservbyname" problems 
were solved.

Hope this helps.

Raghu


>From: "Spicer, Kevin" <Kevin.Spicer at bmrb.co.uk>
>To: <busybox at mail.codepoet.org>
>Subject: [BusyBox] gethostbyname problems?
>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:58:45 -0000
>
>I'm having some strange problems getting various busybox commands to work 
>with hostnames (ping, telnet, nslookup). I'm sure it must be something I've 
>overlooked - but I can't see what...
>
>running ping 10.10.10.10 works fine, but ping hostname returns
>ping: hostname: Unknown server error
>
>Similarly nslookup hostname returns
>*** Unknown host
>
>nslookup: hostname: Unknown server error
>
>and likewise...
>telnet: hostname: Unknown server error
>
>Even ping localhost (or other hosts specified in /etc/hosts) has this 
>problem.
>
>I see this problem on my installed busybox system, and also if I chroot 
>into the unpacked ramdisk on my build system.  However it works fine if I 
>just call the busybox command from my build host.
>
>Heres some details of my build...
>BusyBox 1.00pre3
>STATICALLY LINKED against glibc
>Build Host Mandrake 9.1
>gcc 3.2.2
>kernel 2.4.21  (same on both build and target environment, except target 
>environment is a stripped down recompile)
>
>I think I've got all the supporting files in place, here's what I think 
>they should be...
>
>_host.conf_
>order hosts,bind
>multi on
>
>_hosts_
>127.0.0.1       localhost
>
>_networks_
>loopback        127.0.0.0
>
>_resolv.conf_
>domain mydomain.com
>nameserver 10.10.0.1
>nameserver 10.10.0.2
>
>Any and all suggestions gratefully recieved.
>
>Kevin Spicer
>
>
>
>
>
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