[PATCH] new applet gethostbyname

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 05:36:08PM +0200, ralda at gmx.de wrote:
> Full ack! Are you able to provide a new getent applet (deleting the
> current nslookup)? (Sorry currently can't do development work due to
> personal/health restrictions).

I question the benefit of deleting a utility that some people might be
using, even if it's doing slightly the wrong thing. If anybody wants
the "real" nslookup behavior, DNS is a pretty trivial protocol and it
should be easy to add a correct applet at the same time instead of
just removing the incorrect one. Parsing and treating resolv.conf
properly is actually probably the bulk of the work; sending,
receiving, and printing the DNS result is completely trivial.

Rich