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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IP -> hostname lookup in kernel module?
Date: 12 Dec 2001 11:46:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9v8c61$gcn$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1008174218.3c17848ab4b69@home.hjc.edu.sg> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112130035070.2697-100000@localhost.localdomain> <20011212173517.G17064@blu>

Followup to:  <20011212173517.G17064@blu>
By author:    antirez <antirez@invece.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> There isn't, but you can create an UDP socket and to the query..
> 

No you can't.  There is no way that you can find out which nameservers
are configured.

> or run an userspace resolver daemon that talks with your
> module, or some other trick.
> 
> BTW it isn't the kind of stuff to do in kernelspace.
> You may think about do it in a post-processing stage
> if possible, or to write a module that exports to userspace
> what you need from the kernel and do the rest in userspace.

Indeed.

	-hpa
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-12 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-12 16:23 Kernel-2.4.17pre8 & invalidate: busy buffer Chen Shiyuan
2001-12-12 16:36 ` IP -> hostname lookup in kernel module? Joe Wong
2001-12-12 16:35   ` antirez
2001-12-12 19:46     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-12-13  9:29 ` Kernel-2.4.17pre8 & invalidate: busy buffer Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-12-13 11:41   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-12-13 14:35     ` Ulrich Wiederhold
2001-12-13 15:26       ` Matt

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