Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:57:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" <roberto.Nunnari@agie.ch>, Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gateway strange behaviour for telnet and ftp Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000726115536.75784B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <397E78B1.BDE3A622@softweyr.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > It would be better to just log the IP address and make who et al smart > enough to do the reverse lookup at display time. Sadly, I used to agree, but changed my mind on seeing the increasing usage of dynamic DNS. If people start using it a fair amount with dynamic IP allocation, it would be useful to have the hostname for accounting/debugging purposes. Not to be relied upon sans DNSsec, of course, but still useful. In any case, the IP address is something that should definitely be there, especially in light of the current logging of "invalid hostname" instead of any useful information if the DNS response is poor :-). Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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