[Icecast] EROR: no DNS

Zenon Panoussis oracle at provocation.net
Sun Jan 23 04:26:05 UTC 2005


Michael Smith wrote:

> Yes, that's right: on a modern linux system (as far as I know), there
> is no way to build a fully statically linked application which can do
> hostname lookups. 

Well yes, by building the whole OS into the application, from glibc to
each and every crucial component except the kernel itself. I said "grumpf"
about dynamic linking and chroot, but I'd probaly commit suicide if my
wish of truly static applications got fulfilled.

Z


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