Subject: Re: increasing UT_HOSTSIZE for IPv6?
To: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@emsi.priv.at>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/26/1999 12:27:25
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
: | As others have stated, utmpx is just utmp with bigger field lengths.
: | This is the Wrong Answer.
:
: Yes and no. No because we will have the same problem next time
: with IPV8 or whatever idea comes up.
Actually, it's not even IPv6's fault. Long hostnames, far longer than
utmp's internal field width, have been around for a long time.
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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)