On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Nic Suzor wrote:
>when a player logs on with a hostname longer than 32 characters, they
>receive the introduction and the name prompt, but they are disconnected
>with the [ Losing descriptor without char. ] syslog message.
You probably have a different problem: (comm.c:1071)
strncpy(newd->host, from->h_name, HOST_LENGTH);
*(newd->host + HOST_LENGTH) = '\0';
CircleMUD only copies the first section of their hostname, no matter how
long. Thusly it won't disconnect them.
>if anyone has come across this problem before, or has any ideas on how to
>fix it, help would be greatly appreciated.
You could always use IP addresses.
PS - Reply-To: doesn't work.
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