misc/68134: 'invalid hostname' displayed in w/who output

Jonas Nagel fireball at zerouptime.ch
Sun Jun 20 02:10:27 GMT 2004


>Number:         68134
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       'invalid hostname' displayed in w/who output
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 20 02:10:19 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jonas Nagel
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD www.zerouptime.ch 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 12 17:49:50 CEST 2004 root at www.zerouptime.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WWW i386


>Description:

fireball at www[~]$ w
 3:50AM  up 6 days, 23:05, 2 users, load averages: 0.26, 0.06, 0.02
USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
fireball         p0       invalid hostname Sat04AM     - vi /tmp/pf.SSE0doNI
fireball         p1       invalid hostname  3:50AM     - w
fireball at www[~]$ who
fireball         ttyp0    Jun 19 04:07 (invalid hostname)
fireball         ttyp1    Jun 20 03:50 (invalid hostname)

I actually do have an IP of 192.168.0.xxx. Maybe is to mention that I am accessing the box (in the DMZ) through a NAT (ipnat),
and IMO it should be displaying the IP if it is unable to resolve the hostname correctly.


>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

Too inexperienced with FreeBSD code (and not enough time to waste)...

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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