Subject: Re: bin/506: Problem with name lookup for utmp.
To: None <briggs@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu>
From: Charles Hannum <mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/05/1994 01:30:59 
Technically speaking, this is not a `bug'.  If the name is longer than
the ut_host field, the IP number is used instead, so that there is
always complete information available.

I'm not sure I like this `feature', but that's how it was designed.