Patch from Thomas Winkler:

ifconfig did not look up hostnames, so
	ifconfig lo localhost
would not work, you have to do
	ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1


git-svn-id: svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox@8675 69ca8d6d-28ef-0310-b511-8ec308f3f277

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/networking/ifconfig.c b/networking/ifconfig.c
index b884ef7c3..4e3df2982 100644
--- a/networking/ifconfig.c
+++ b/networking/ifconfig.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * Foundation;  either  version 2 of the License, or  (at
  * your option) any later version.
  *
- * $Id: ifconfig.c,v 1.29 2004/03/15 08:28:48 andersen Exp $
+ * $Id: ifconfig.c,v 1.30 2004/03/31 11:30:08 andersen Exp $
  *
  */
 
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <string.h>             /* strcmp and friends */
 #include <ctype.h>              /* isdigit and friends */
 #include <stddef.h>             /* offsetof */
+#include <netdb.h>
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include <net/if.h>
 #include <net/if_arp.h>
@@ -443,8 +444,13 @@ int ifconfig_main(int argc, char **argv)
 #endif
                                                 } else if (inet_aton(host, &sai.sin_addr) == 0) {
                                                         /* It's not a dotted quad. */
-                                                        ++goterr;
-                                                        continue;
+                                                        struct hostent *hp;
+                                                        if ((hp = gethostbyname(host)) == (struct hostent *)NULL) {
+                                                                ++goterr;
+                                                                continue;
+                                                        }
+                                                        memcpy((char *) &sai.sin_addr, (char *) hp->h_addr_list[0],
+                                                        sizeof(struct in_addr));
                                                 }
 #ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_BROADCAST_PLUS
                                                 if (mask & A_HOSTNAME) {