Package: coreutils
Version: 8.23-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
/usr/bin/who used to cannonicalize hostnames by looking the ip address
up in DNS. Recently this changed and this is no longer the default.
It now always prints the ip address.
It is often desirable to see the hostnames looked up in DNS.
There is a command line option: --lookup
attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS
This option appears to have no effect. At minimum this should be fixed.
Incidentally and I'm not sure if it's related, the following commands
now only print the IP address instead of the hostname:
/usr/bin/w
/usr/bin/finger
/usr/bin/last
Not sure why this behavior changed but in my opionion it shouldn't
have. In preference, a command line options should have been provided
to print out the ip address instead of the name (who has --ips) and on
bsd systems, the w command has -n option.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (1000, 'testing'), (750, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.1.5-x86_64-linode61 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2
ii libc6 2.19-19
ii libselinux1 2.3-2+b1
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
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