From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 13 15:27:48 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA14047 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 13 May 1995 15:27:48 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA14041 for ; Sat, 13 May 1995 15:27:45 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA00426; Sat, 13 May 1995 15:30:44 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id PAA01616; Sat, 13 May 1995 15:27:39 -0700 Message-Id: <199505132227.PAA01616@corbin.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. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 May 95 15:20:02 PDT." <199505132220.PAA13926@freefall.cdrom.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 15:27:34 -0700 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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