netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip: make -resolve addr to print names rather than addresses

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Date:	Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:49:30 +0100
From:	Sami Kerola <kerolasa@....fi>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip: make -resolve addr to print names rather than addresses

On 4 October 2013 19:25, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:01:48 +0100 Sami Kerola <kerolasa@....fi> wrote:
>
>> As a system admin I occasionally want to be able to check that all
>> interfaces has a name in DNS or /etc/hosts file.
>
> This shouldn't be the default. It will change the result that user's expect now.

Doesn't the format_host() print exactly the same output as before,
unless -r is defined.
I intended resolution to happen when

ip -r addr

is used, but not when the -r is not specified. Or did I somehow messed
up the logic?

-- 
Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
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