On Tuesday December 06 2016 19:35:38 Brandon Allbery wrote: > ago...). Regardless, I regularly get hostnames that won't fit in *any* > utmp/wtmp record.
You forgot utmpx ;) Just out of curiosity, I suppose this is still the full hostname, domain included? > For ssh, sure. And ideally that's the only thing that would matter --- but, > sometimes reality (or lame network vendors, etc.) has other ideas. I can't even remember the last time I used telnet other than to connect directly to a specific port... Ftp is different matter, but not relevant here. I see that my rhostname code is still written in K&R C, apparently I started it almost exactly 25y ago, still young and undesillusioned :) R.
