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From: ev002b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Volpe)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0a telnetd not resolving hostnames?
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In <1994Nov22.104030.17108@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ev002b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Volpe) writes:
[stupidity deleted]


Sorry... that's what I get for neglecting to RTFM. For anyone who was
equally confused, if a hostname is longer than the length of a utmp 
hostname field (or the length specified with the -u option to telnetd)
telnetd will enter it into utmp using the dotted decimal value instead
of the name, so as to be able to uniquely identify even long hostnames.