bin/76089: The "-n" option in /usr/bin/w is broken

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 5:16 PM +1100 2/14/05, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-Feb-13 19:50:44 +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>>  IMHO to be more robust, we should make utmp to hold an IP address
>  > instead of a hostname and change all applications that use it. As
>  > bonus it will fix a delay on login when resolving does not work.
>  > And last(1) will show more useful IP address instead of changable
>  > hostname.
>
>Depending on the environment, the IP address may be more changeable
>than the hostname.  Definitely, in a DHCP or dialup environment, you
>can't rely on the IP address at any time other than during the
>session.  There is little (if any) benefit in logging the IP address
>instead of the hostname.

Actually, it would be nice to log both.  That's what I have done
for some printer-related statistics (not sure if I did that in
FreeBSD, but I do that for production use at RPI).

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu