busybox-static_1.22.0 doesn't DNS resolve addresses

[GoranB]

After building the raspbian-ua-netinst (https://github.com/debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst) using the new busybox-static_1.22.0-8_armhf.deb package, the resulting install image isn't capable of resolving addresses (/etc/resolv.conf has the right information in it)
ping (for example) would throw a "bad address" error

replacing the package with busybox-static_1.20.0-7_armhf.deb resolves this issue

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

I can confirm this issue with busybox version 1.22.0-8.

# nslookup google.com
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address 1: 192.168.1.1

nslookup: can't resolve 'google.com'

But that same statement works on my host machine (Debian Sid)
$ nslookup google.com
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.116.134
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.116.135
<and a bunch of others>

This issue does NOT happen with version 1.22.0-6 though, so it must have been introduced with -7 or -8.

The raspbian-ua-netinst issue is https://github.com/debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst/issues/80

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

I have narrowed it down to the busybox-static version 1.22.0-7 which introduced this bug.

root@bagend:/home/diederik/dev/busybox# ./busybox-1.22.0-6 ping -c 1 google.com
PING google.com (74.125.136.101): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.136.101: seq=0 ttl=47 time=14.401 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 14.401/14.401/14.401 ms
root@bagend:/home/diederik/dev/busybox# ./busybox-1.22.0-7 ping -c 1 google.com
ping: bad address 'google.com'
root@bagend:/home/diederik/dev/busybox# ./busybox-1.22.0-8 ping -c 1 google.com
ping: bad address 'google.com'

Note however that the non-static version does work (tested it with version 1.22.0-8).
Going to file a Debian bug now.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757941

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

This bug can be closed as the current version in Jessie does work properly (much to my surprise).