Re: IP # from connection_name?

• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:05:10 PST
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  RavenStar <wec@cs.buffalo.edu>
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Mike Thompson wrote:

> 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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Actually, I've seen and worked a little bit with an in-db solution to 
this...there's an object floating around there called $resolver which has 
functions that return all that sorta useful stuff, make DNS calls, etc.

I know of two places that have it right now (and I'll make a plug for 'em 
while I'm at it):

NillaMOO (dayvid.skylink.net 6669)
VirtualMOO (dayvid.skylink.net 8080)

As far as I know, the original author doesn't care if it's ported...and 
heck, if he does, it prolly wouldn't take much to make one of your own.

RavenStar

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