Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 15:27:34 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: bin/402: w -n doesnt work as advertised. Message-ID: <199505132227.PAA01616@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 May 95 15:20:02 PDT." <199505132220.PAA13926@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> I modified w.c to attempt to figure out the ip address of the hosts > that were non-IP. Because some folks might need an option to make w > not do any resolver lookups, I also added -l which mirrors the > the existing -n flag, and ensures no nameserver calls get executed. Actually, I strongly dislike the 4.4 "w" doing nameserver lookups by default. On any reasonable system that has > 20 users on it, it can take anywhere from several seconds to several minutes for the w output to finish. In my opinion, the default for w should be reverted back to the old behavior of trusting what is in wtmp. -DG
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