On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Martin J. Laubach wrote:

: | As others have stated, utmpx is just utmp with bigger field lengths.
: | This is the Wrong Answer.
: 
:   Yes and no. No because we will have the same problem next time
: with IPV8 or whatever idea comes up.

Actually, it's not even IPv6's fault.  Long hostnames, far longer than
utmp's internal field width, have been around for a long time.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)