bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option

[Kirk Strauser]

The following reply was made to PR bin/57089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima at trit.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, brian at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:39:18 -0500

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 At 2003-09-22T22:43:00Z, Dima Dorfman <dima at trit.org> writes:
 
 > and it looks like that rationale still applies.
 
 That makes a certain kind of sense, I suppose.
 
 > I've cc'd brian (who made that change) to see whether he has any input on
 > this.  The issue is: So, you want to see numeric addresses--but for which
 > family?  If a host resolves to a v4 and v6 address, which one should be
 > displayed?
 
 Ideally, you'd see the address of the socket that the user is connecting on.
 For diagnostic purposes, it'd be nice to get a deterministic answer that tty
 p0 is connecting from 10.0.5.128, and tty p1 is connecting from
 2001:470:1f00:546:2a0:c9ff:fe08:260a .
 
 > Perhaps the programs that write to utmp/wtmp should just avoid writing
 > hostnames?  (although this is just a thought--I haven't tried to think
 > through the implications of doing something like that)
 
 Well, I could see that it may be useful to have a "snapshot" of what the
 hostname was at the time the user originally connected - DNS records do
 change, after all - but is there a good reason not to additionally store the
 address?
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 Kirk Strauser
 
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