Re: converting a hostname to an IP address

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Subject: Re: converting a hostname to an IP address
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:36:27 +0200
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[Otavio Salvador]
> I am not aware of any easy way for doing that but I'd suggest you to
> take a look in BusyBox to see what it can offer you to solve this.

Do busybox provde getent?  'getent hosts $hostname' might work.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

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