Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:38:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: showing full host names in output from who/finger/last Message-ID: <199904120738.IAA02356@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:05:30 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990411190058.11402A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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[.....] > I got sick of seing "invalid hostname" in my wtmps a while ago on my 2.x > machines. That is an exceptionally useless piece of behavior, if you ask > me. Sshd writes out IPs and I find that to be much more consistent (and > useful). Sshd gets it wrong though. It gets the full hostname and then a freebsd patch changes that to an IP if the name is >UT_HOSTSIZE. In -current, this behaviour has been changed to call trimdomain() (trimdomain() has just been documented too), and if the result still doesn't fit in UT_HOSTSIZE it reverts to an IP number. This should be pretty consistent for all the stuff in libexec now too. > Robert N Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ > Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@uk.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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