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. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: 21A7 C7F3 fvw@[var.cx|stack.nl|chello.nl] ICQ#10074100 1FF3 47FF 545C CB53 Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/fvw at var.cx 7BD9 09C0 3AC1 6DF2 _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
