Hi,

>>>>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:18:49 -0800
>>>>> Juli Mallett <jmall...@freebsd.org> said:

jmallett> I'm not sure this is right.  While the manpage implies that doing no
jmallett> resolution means that it will show numeric addresses, since that is
jmallett> not correct, there are two ways to go.  As you have done, you can
jmallett> choose to try to resolve hostnames to IP addresses.  You could also do
jmallett> as the code before did and do no resolution.  I frequently use 'w -n'
jmallett> on systems with slow nameservers to see who is logged in without
jmallett> triggering a bunch of DNS traffic that I then have to wait for.
jmallett> Trying to resolve the name to a numeric address presents that problem.
jmallett>  Since it is not possible to always show a numeric address (if, for
jmallett> example, the hostname is no longer valid) I'm not sure that this is
jmallett> the right direction to try to go with 'w -n'.

The feature was present in the past, and was dropped by 1.48.  The
reason is that we have no idea what address family they belong to.
So, I reintroduce it for just one A/AAAA RR case.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/w/w.c#rev1.48

However, a hostname in utmp is truncated in many cases.  It is useless
to query for a truncated hostname.  How about this patch?

Index: usr.bin/w/w.c
diff -u -p usr.bin/w/w.c.orig usr.bin/w/w.c
--- usr.bin/w/w.c.orig  2009-11-21 20:27:35.000000000 +0900
+++ usr.bin/w/w.c       2009-11-25 12:40:19.142972545 +0900
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
                        if (isaddr && realhostname_sa(fn, sizeof(fn), sa,
                            sa->sa_len) == HOSTNAME_FOUND)
                                p = fn;
-               } else if (!isaddr) {
+               } else if (!isaddr && strlen(p) < UT_HOSTSIZE) {
                        /*
                         * If a host has only one A/AAAA RR, change a
                         * name into an IP address


Sincerely,

--
Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
u...@mahoroba.org  u...@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org
http://www.imasy.org/~ume/
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