[PATCH] new applet gethostbyname

Eial Czerwacki eial at scalemp.com
Sun Jul 8 11:14:13 UTC 2012


Harald,

On 07/08/2012 02:04 PM, ralda at gmx.de wrote:

> Different DHCP server config shall not give different nslookup output
> if device is configured for same IP address. So there is usually
> something wrong. I think it's best to find the reason for this
> difference and to fix it.
> 
> Otherwise nslookup does the job you wanted, as Ralf mentioned. It
> differs only in output format. So don't try to add different applet for
> nearly same operation. If only output format matters, add on option to
> control output format. More likely this gets accepted then a new
> applet (if for general scripting purpose).
> 

nslookup is not a valid option currently.
I cannot take in account all possible outputs.

Eial.


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