Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:10:02 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/16619: Enhancement to trimdomain library routine in libutil Message-ID: <200002120110.RAA40853@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/16619; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To: pirzyk@hotmail.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject: Re: bin/16619: Enhancement to trimdomain library routine in libutil
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:46:36 +0000
> >Number: 16619
> >Category: bin
> >Synopsis: trimdomain does not handle peer domains
[.....]
> >Description:
>
> when rsh/ssh/telnet into a host in a peer domain, the hostname is
> greater than UT_HOSTNAMELEN and so the IP number gets put into the
> wtmp file. To releave this, we wanted the domain in common part
> to be parsed out. i.e if I am on snoopy.foo.example.com and want
> to login to woodstock.bar.example.com the finger info should show
> on woodstock me logged in from snoopy.foo
[.....]
No, this is a bad idea. Last time I was in there, I actually
implemented this and realised why....
$ hostname
confusion.co.uk.FreeBSD.org
$ slogin freefall.FreeBSD.org
Freefalls logs are now garbage. This is why name resolution doesn't
work this way any more either.
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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