Bug#827: who reports wrong hostname (was: resolver problems FIXED!)
Hi all,
I'm cleaning out old bug reports, this one seems to be a leftover that should
have been closed for a long time.
If I don't receive objections before Feb 15, I'll close this bug report.
Siggy
>>>>>> In April Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Package: libc or shellutils
>> Version: 4.6.27-carl or 1.12-3
>>
>> Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> > Well, I *think* that the resolver problems in the recent libc's
>> > have been ironed out. The fix that went into 4.7 didn't quite do all
>> > of it. I made a patched version of libc-4.6.27 that should fix everything
>> > up. I've been running it for a while now, and it seems to work.
>> > I'd appreciate if others could try it as well.
>>
>> who reports wrong hostnames.
>>
>> Here is what I did:
>> I logged in from frosch.cosy.sbg.ac.at to dackel.cosy.sbg.ac.at
>> and issued "who" (I was logged in from baer.cosy.sbg.ac.at, too).
>> dackel and baer are Debian 0.93 systems, frosch is a sun sparc
>> running SunOS.
>>
>> who displayed:
>> root@dackel:/tmp> who
>> chris ttyp0 Apr 23 19:09 (baer.cosy.sbg.ac)
>> chris ttyp1 Apr 23 19:18 (dackel.cosy.sbg.)
>> ^^^^^^ should be frosch
Carl> What are you using to reolve addresses? Named, or hosts?
Carl> does an nslookup on 141.201.2.16 give you frosch's name?
Carl> This would probably not be a bug in who, as who just reads the utmp file,
Carl> and I would suspect either a config problem, or a problem with whatever's
Carl> writing the utmp file. in.rlogind, or in.telnetd.
Carl> If there's nothing wrong in the hosts file on dackal, and nslookup is
Carl> right, let me know, and I'll find something else to test it with.
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