In lpd.conf:

# Purpose: force IPADDR of Originating host for host value in control file
#   default force_ipaddr_hostname@ (FLAG off)


Phillip Stark wrote:
> At 6:01 PM -0700 9/9/02, Phillip Stark wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a way to pass the ip or hostname of the computer that sent a 
>> job to a filter?  The -h or -H filter flags would appear to work, but 
>> these are the hostname as reported by the control file, not 
>> necessarily the hostname of the computer that actually sent the job. 
>> This is for an authentication-type function so I need to be sure that 
>> the info is not spoofed (and, in any case, the hostname reported by 
>> some non-unix platforms is not a DNS hostname). Basically, I want the 
>> ip that the bits from the job actually came from not the ip that the 
>> bits in the job *say* they came from.
>>
>> Is there and option I'm missing to do this?  Could you reliably parse 
>> this out of the -e or -k options? (-e and -k, the names of the data 
>> and control files respectively, seem to have the hostname embedded).
> 
> 
> To answer part of my own question, no, you cannot parse the info from -e 
> or -k--the hostname embedded there is from the control file just like 
> -h.  Hopefully there's another way?
> 
> Phillip
> 


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