Thread: BusyBox v1.18.4
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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
And, we seem to have a problem.

I haven't extensively tested this, but after the first reboot after having copied your busybox binary onto my device, right up until the reboot after I placed the original busybox back in, my device stopped resolving DNS.

Whether through ping, or through MicroB, it simply failed to reach anything when directed to it using URLs. It worked just fine when being directed at an IP address though. So www.google.com failed to go anywhere, but (local Google server's IP address) would load/ping flawlessly.

The only thing that fixed it was putting the stock busybox binary back in and rebooting...

I shall do some more extensive testing as time permits (though I'm pretty sure neither of the other two busybox binaries in this thread had this problem, as I think I remember rebooting with them), with some of the other busybox binaries available, and again with this one in case it glitched on copying, but I thought I'd let you know.

Aside from that little hitch, I haven't noticed any problems. vi_: You tested this last binary too right? Have you rebooted since then, or experienced any other problems?
This seems to be a problem with just the enhanced busybox, as I don't have this problem using the busybox deb with Nokia's configuration.

I hadn't tested the enhanced version out extensively (only some quick on-device testing if the binary was OK) before, but after installing it and rebooting, my device didn't resolve DNS either.

The cause is some enabled feature in the configuration file, as that is the only factor changed between the updated busybox binary and the updated + enhanced one. I currently don't have the time to find the exact option responsible, but if anyone has some spare time: the used configuration file for the enhanced busybox can be found on the previous page. It is probably some feature with DNS in its name. I'll look later this week into it if nobody has done it by then

On a side note, I'll make a proper announcement thread for the updated busybox package from this post tomorrow; all problems/discussion about it can be seperated from this thread then. Stay tuned!
 

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