🚀 go-pugleaf

Summary

Can anyone suggest how to patch nntp so it queries the Appletalk network
for the Mac's Chooser User Name, so that this can be written in the NNTP
logfile. 

Details:

We have a network with many Macs which use what MacTCP calls server
addressing (and some others call dynamic addressing).  In other words,
the Macs do not have a fixed TCP/IP address, but get one dynamically
from some gateway.

The NNTP server runs on a Sun.

When the Macs read news using NNTP, the NNTP log file contains the
TCP/IP address of the user.  However, this is no use at all for me to
try to analyse use of news, because I can't find out who corresponds to
each TCP/IP address, (and the correspondance may change from time to
time).  Most users don't have acounts on the NNTP server, so I can't
user the user facility in the nntp log (since it doesn't appear in most
log entries).

The timeserver for tardis produces a nice log file, just like the one I
want, but I think that it is given the User Name by the Mac cleint end.

I expect I have to modify the NNTP server to get what I want.

Tim Lyons