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From: Eial Czerwacki <eial@scalemp.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:25:13 +0300
Subject: [Buildroot] ping not working in a glibc based buildroot
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Greetings Thomas,

On 07/10/2014 05:16 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Eial Czerwacki,
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:13:57 +0300, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>
>> I've added libnss_dns-2.18.so to the img and libresolv.so and it seems
>> to be working.
>> the files are missing because I work in a kinda limited size.
> So you removed them manually? I'd like to understand what happened, to
> fix Buildroot if needed.
>
>> do I need the other libnss_*.so files?
> By default, we only copy libnss_dns (to do DNS resolution) and
> libnss_files (to do /etc/hosts based resolution), and we don't copy the
> other libnss_* libraries, which are used for more advanced name
> resolution that are generally not used on most embedded systems.
>
> See 'man nsswitch.conf' for more details.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
I see, as I don't use /etc/hosts, I think I don't need libnss_files.

I hope I get it all to work now, thanks a bunch!

Eial.