Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: IP -> hostname lookup in kernel module? | Date | 12 Dec 2001 11:46:09 -0800 |
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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.
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