On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:54:59PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > Ouch.  Since your FQDN actually contains your IP address, this
> > would look a lot nicer if you just wrote it as
> > http://80.192.4.36:8889/gibberish/ .
> This annoyed me too - it seems that the distro servlet currently insists 
> on doing a reverse DNS lookup on any IP address and using that - which 
> typically results in a much longer URL.

On the other hand, it usually does make sense to do reverse DNS, and
you can hardly expect it to do both and use the shortest (depending on
if the user has told it it's allowed to). The best solution is just
piping it through sed if you prefer your ip.



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