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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.080916.17618@aston.ac.uk>
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- References: <1992Dec17.192257.29291@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:09:16 GMT
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- Just some loser... (asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu) wrote:
- : mnystrom@athena.mit.edu (Mika Nystroem) was telling me...
- : >In article <1992Dec15.203157.10128@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>, asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- : >|> tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) was telling me...
- : >|>
- : >|> --
- : >*** dog5 is mnystrom@patriot (Mika Nystrom)
- : >*** on irc via server Patriot.mit.edu (Fastest draw in the East)
- : >*** dog5 has been idle 6 seconds
- : >It *does* say patriot.mit.edu; that's why I never considered it a major problem.
- :
- : For the server, yay. Not for you.
- :
- : >I haven't fixed it because I don't have root access and the people who do aren't
- : >going to. I did the following instead:
-
- At a guess this is the result of gethostbyaddr() in libc returning a host
- name which is not a FQDN if it is local.
- (I didn't think the code used this interface, maybe it does if /etc/resolv.conf
- is missing?)
-
- I really don't see what the fuss is about.
- (a few lines of extra code will fix this, if it is REALLY than much of a problem)
-
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