Command who in STRECH

Good afternoon.
I have a small problem with the "who" command in a Debian Stretch.
When I do a "who i am" in Debian wheezy
the result is:

gestion pts/0 2019-03-11 17:17 (juan)

And when I do it from STRETCH, the output is:

gestion pts/0 2019-03-11 17:17 (194.1.80.205)

The difference is that the name I have in /etc/hosts comes out in Wheezy, and the IP comes out in STRETCH.

That is an inconvenience for me, because in another process I extract the name with "awk" to reuse it in other processes.

I was googling the weekend without finding any clear reference,
I show you the -files- that I think are involved in the subject.

An extract of the /etc/hosts is:

127.0.0.1 localhost 194.1.80.206 milinux.com milinux # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ################### 194.1.80.205 juan

/etc/resolv.conf

search milinux.com nameserver 80.58.0.33 nameserver 80.58.61.250 nameserver 80.58.61.254

/etc/nsswitch

# /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try: # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file. passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat gshadow: files hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc: db files netgroup: nis

Can someone tell me what may be happening?
or how to solve it?

Thank's

did you check the version of who?
if you need the hostname why don't you use the command hostname?

Originally Posted by pan64 did you check the version of who?

who --version ====> coreutils 8.26

if you need the hostname why don't you use the command hostname?

When you enter as a client on a server with -for example, ssh or telnet- the command "hostname -I" gives the result of the server, not the client.

Ok.
I think who will return the ip address when it cannot find the hostname.
you can check by the command: host <ip>.

Again, when you enter as a client on a server with "ssh" the orders refer to the server, not the client.
You can check it yourself by installing the "ssh" service and the "putty" desktop client.

apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client putty

Then you go into "putty" as I show in the image and verify.

Check also that it does not work in Slackware or Red Hat.

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I don't understand what are you speaking about.
You entered who and an ip address was returned instead of hostname. This is your original problem. I think you can check the host where you executed who did not find the hostname, that's why was the ip address used. You can check it easily with the command host <ip address> - exactly in the same window where you executed the command who.