Re: Why does an ip resolving to Genuity appear in my /var/log/wtmp?

From: Frank Ove Limstrand (Frank.Limstrand@nb.no)
Date: 01/23/03 

From: "Frank Ove Limstrand" <Frank.Limstrand@nb.no>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:18:31 +0100

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:02:53 +0000, mr.e wrote:

> Frank Ove Limstrand wrote:
>
>> Does the output from last -adix on your system look like this at all?
>> Especially the ":0" lines? Is those the only lines where you find
>> mysterious ip-addresses?
>> Fr@nk
>
> Yes

Hi

The -i flag says this in the man page:

-i This option is like -d in that it displays the IP number of the
       remote host, but it displays the IP number in numbers-and-dots
       notation.

This does not apply to the ":0" lines. These lines are for your local X
connection which uses (i guess) a unix domain socket which doesn't have an
ip-address. last -i will still do what it is told and convert whatever
(junk) is in the respective buffer to an ip-address.

Fr@nk