On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 6:08 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> A long time ago I wrote an application that returns the name (or IP) of > the host you're logged in from. I don't think I ever got it to work > reliably on modern Linux and OS X machines Unless things are configured to log to wtmp by IP address, these stopped working when hostnames got too long. OS doesn't matter. (wtmp has to set a length limit, and good luck reconstructing from a prefix. It's been tried many times and is pretty much impossible.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
