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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Given a filedescriptor, how can I find source IP??
Message-ID: <6924@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 30 Mar 91 23:57:30 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.041824.3130@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Mar26.064131.24485@mtxinu.COM> <1991Mar26.170837.110@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>It turns out that in SunOS3.x, inetd by default passed the ip address
>as a command line arg to in.telnetd. 
>
>In SunOS4.1 they "fixed" it so that it does not.

More correctly, in SunOS 4.*0* they picked up the 4.3BSD "inetd", which
handed you a socket for the connection on file descriptors 0, 1, and 2,
and didn't hand you the IP address as a command-line argument.