Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/09/2000 09:57:45
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 05:28:52PM +0300, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> Modified Files:
> basesrc/usr.sbin/lpr/common_source: common.c
>
> Log Message:
> rewrite local address detection code, to use getifaddrs(3), not gethostname(3).
> gethostname(3) do not necessarily represent local host addrses.
> pointed out by: Chuck Cranor
Yes, and there is TONS of code in the tree that assumes that gethostname(3)
returns something that == a host address. We really need a full audit of
this.
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