TiVo and DNS

I'm just getting into hacking my TiVo. I installed a cachecard in it yesterday and enabled telnet, ftp and TiVoWeb.

I quickly began to notice that it does not resolve domain names, even when I put the correct DNS servers in resolv.conf. From a quick search of the web I couldn't find any info on how to get it to work, other than using a proxy server. One post mentioned that the name resolution stuff was removed from glibc.

Anyone here gotten it to work on a TiVo?

You can't as the TiVo doesn't have the resolver libraries installed. At least it doesn't on my 2.5 Series 1 unit. Compile and install the libs and it should work. Why do you want it anyway?

Certainly not a need...just a want. Makes it easier to use wget or http_get. I also may be writing some software to go on it that connects to a computer via a dynamic DNS name. I just find it hard to believe that noone has compiled the stuff necessary to make it happen before. It'd just be awfully convenient.

No clue about whether somebody has compiled it or not. I've not looked for it. Just remember to get the right binaries if you do. S1 and S2 aren't the same architecture.

Set up a proxy server on your home network. Then you won't have to resolve external names. wget supports proxies as a command line option. Don't know about http_get.

You can actually specify a proxy in the wgetrc and not worry about putting it on the command line. I just didn't want to run a proxy. No worries...I'll cope without it.