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

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday December 06 2016 19:35:38 Brandon Allbery wrote:

> ago...). Regardless, I regularly get hostnames that won't fit in *any*
> utmp/wtmp record.

You forgot utmpx ;)

Just out of curiosity, I suppose this is still the full hostname, domain included?

> For ssh, sure. And ideally that's the only thing that would matter --- but,
> sometimes reality (or lame network vendors, etc.) has other ideas.

I can't even remember the last time I used telnet other than to connect directly to a specific port...
Ftp is different matter, but not relevant here.

I see that my rhostname code is still written in K&R C, apparently I started it almost exactly 25y ago, still young and undesillusioned :)

R.