Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:56:13 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/76089: The "-n" option in /usr/bin/w is broken Message-ID: <p06210205be35fbb6bbe1@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050214061622.GA70826@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <420F8564.5060200@FreeBSD.org> <20050214061622.GA70826@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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At 5:16 PM +1100 2/14/05, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On Sun, 2005-Feb-13 19:50:44 +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: >> IMHO to be more robust, we should make utmp to hold an IP address > > instead of a hostname and change all applications that use it. As > > bonus it will fix a delay on login when resolving does not work. > > And last(1) will show more useful IP address instead of changable > > hostname. > >Depending on the environment, the IP address may be more changeable >than the hostname. Definitely, in a DHCP or dialup environment, you >can't rely on the IP address at any time other than during the >session. There is little (if any) benefit in logging the IP address >instead of the hostname. Actually, it would be nice to log both. That's what I have done for some printer-related statistics (not sure if I did that in FreeBSD, but I do that for production use at RPI). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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