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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: What does the "(null)" in "4D1-3.147 IP6 yrsa ((null))" mean?
Summary: fixed bug, I hope
Message-ID: <39408@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 89 21:06:07 GMT
References: <64@harald.UUCP>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <64@harald.UUCP>, jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes:
> ...[telnetd says]...
> 
>   4D1-3.147 IP6 yrsa ((null))
> -- 
> Jan B. Andersen                              ("SIMULA does it with CLASS")


There was a bug introduced in telnetd some time ago, and fixed not long
afterwards which caused this symptom.  It was an error in translating stuff
to use uname(2)--an extra %s in an sprintf(3) pattern.  The problem does
not seem evident in 3.1G.  Even better, 3.1G identifies itself as "4D1-3.1G."

Vernon Schryver
Silicon Graphics
vjs@sgi.com