# IP # from connection_name?

Mike Thompson (shadowr@ipass.net)
Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:15:32 PST

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    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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