[5189] in Release_7.7_team
Re: VPN for Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 30 11:25:36 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>, ops@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu,
jdreed@mit.edu
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On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 00:54 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> which could be anyone anywhere as far as I know (I don't know why the
> license server records fully-qualified domain names in some cases but
> not others).
Sounds like the license server is logging the client's idea of its own
hostname, which is sometimes an FQDN and sometimes not. (The
predominant convention is to use an FQDN as the hostname, but the
machine administrator can generally set it to anything they want.)
