Re: IP # from connection_name?

• Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:22:26 PST
• From:
  Andrew Wendt <powerpig@m-net.arbornet.org>
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On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Gustavo Glusman wrote:
> >I changed my connection_name() to return strings like this:
> >
> >"port 3200 from localhost (127.0.0.1), port 1032"
> 
> Could you please post the patch?

I guess so. I'm not at all proud of it though.

There's probably bugs in it which will destroy your database, etc.

The code I changed was in lookup_name_from_addr() in name_lookup.c. There's 3
small changes.

The line:
ensure_buffer(&buffer, &buflen, len + 1);

becomes:
ensure_buffer(&buffer, &buflen, len + 21);

I don't see how an IP could be longer than 15 characters but the original code
uses a length of 20 for them so I might as well.

This:
buffer[len] = '\0';
return buffer;

becomes:
unsigned32      a = ntohl(addr->sin_addr.s_addr);
sprintf((char *)buffer+len, " (%u.%u.%u.%u)",
 (unsigned) (a >> 24) & 0xff, (unsigned) (a >> 16) & 0xff,
 (unsigned) (a >> 8) & 0xff, (unsigned) a & 0xff);
return buffer;

This is basically just copying the code from the bottom of this function in
the case where the lookup fails. Then I thought I wanted the IP surrounded in
parentheses even in that case, so:
sprintf(decimal, "%u.%u.%u.%u",

turns into:
sprintf(decimal, "(%u.%u.%u.%u)",

There are better ways to do this but I wanted to change the server code as
little as possible.

Andy

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