# IP # from connection_name?

RavenStar (wec@cs.buffalo.edu)
Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:05:10 PST

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    On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Mike Thompson wrote:

    > Patrick Sibenaler wrote:
    > > is there a way to pull the actual connection ip number from one
    > > of the net commands? My connection_name() returns the machine name,
    > > although the 1.8.0p5 manual sais that it returns the name OR the
    > > decimal values.-Or is there a verb that's able to convert names
    > > using DNS requests?
    >
    > There is no builtin to do that.  To my knowledge connection_name will
    > always return a name unless the DNS lookup fails.  This is something
    > I'd like to see in the next version of the server, have it all IPs
    > and a DNS function.  (It'd make (black,etc.)listing work better, and
    > cut most lists of hosts size in half)
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    Actually, I've seen and worked a little bit with an in-db solution to
    this...there's an object floating around there called $resolver which has
    functions that return all that sorta useful stuff, make DNS calls, etc.

    I know of two places that have it right now (and I'll make a plug for 'em
    while I'm at it):

    NillaMOO (dayvid.skylink.net 6669)
    VirtualMOO (dayvid.skylink.net 8080)

    As far as I know, the original author doesn't care if it's ported...and
    heck, if he does, it prolly wouldn't take much to make one of your own.

    RavenStar

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