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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:05:45 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>
To:        rwatson@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil realhostname.c
Message-ID:  <20000715.040545.85333293.ume@mahoroba.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000714142251.86137D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200007141808.LAA07166@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000714142251.86137D-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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>>>>> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:26:20 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>> Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> said:

rwatson> I believe BSD/OS switched to a model where they retain both a
rwatson> hostname and an address.

How can it be done?  If BSD/OS has nice scheme around here, we should
bring it into FreeBSD.

rwatson> I don't know if their address field can hold an IPv6 address.

I just logged in to builder. :-)
BSD/OS's UT_HOSTSIZE seems 32.  It is still shorter than IPv6 address.
However, more cases are saved than FreeBSD's 16.

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