`port edit`, local/console vs. remote use

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 6:08 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
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.)

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