From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:48:49 -0700
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] v3 - add dns
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Hi Robin,

Robin Getz wrote:
> On 04 Oct 2008 Pieter posted a dns implementation for U-Boot.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net/msg10216.html
>   
>> DNS can be enabled by setting CFG_CMD_DNS. After performing a query,
>> the serverip environment var is updated.
>>
>> Probably there are some cosmetic issues with the patch. Unfortunatly I
>> do not have the time to correct these. So if anybody else likes DNS
>> support in U-Boot and has the time, feel free to patch it in the main tree.
>>     
>
> Here it is again - slightly modified & smaller:
>   - update to 2009-06 (Pieter's patch was for U-Boot 1.2.0)
>   - README.dns is added
>   - syntax is changed (now takes a third option, the env var to store
>     the result in)
>   - add a random port() function in net.c
>   - sort Makefile in ./net/Makefile
>   - dns just returns unless a env var is given
>   - run through checkpatch, and clean up style issues
>   - remove packet from stack
>   - cleaned up some comments
>   - failure returns much faster (if server responds, don't wait for
>     timeout)
>   - use built in functions (memcpy) rather than byte copy.
>  
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pieter Voorthuijsen <pieter.voorthuijsen@prodrive.nl>
>   
Looks like I missed a pretty interesting discussion here.  Anyway, patch 
V3 is applied to the net repo with some cosmetic changes to the 
changelog (no changes to the patch).

thanks,
Ben