Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:40:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option Message-ID: <200309281740.h8SHeMZk072254@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/57089; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org,
brian@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:37:41 +0100
I think this conversation reduces to the requirement for a new utmp format.
And if we're going that route, we should really look at utmpx. I don't think
anyone's done more than look at it though :*/
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:39:18 -0500, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote:
> At 2003-09-22T22:43:00Z, Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> writes:
>
> > and it looks like that rationale still applies.
>
> That makes a certain kind of sense, I suppose.
>
> > I've cc'd brian (who made that change) to see whether he has any input on
> > this. The issue is: So, you want to see numeric addresses--but for which
> > family? If a host resolves to a v4 and v6 address, which one should be
> > displayed?
>
> Ideally, you'd see the address of the socket that the user is connecting on.
> For diagnostic purposes, it'd be nice to get a deterministic answer that tty
> p0 is connecting from 10.0.5.128, and tty p1 is connecting from
> 2001:470:1f00:546:2a0:c9ff:fe08:260a .
>
> > Perhaps the programs that write to utmp/wtmp should just avoid writing
> > hostnames? (although this is just a thought--I haven't tried to think
> > through the implications of doing something like that)
>
> Well, I could see that it may be useful to have a "snapshot" of what the
> hostname was at the time the user originally connected - DNS records do
> change, after all - but is there a good reason not to additionally store the
> address?
> --
> Kirk Strauser
>
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