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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: symbolic name vs IP returned, how?
Date: 30 Aug 1995 14:47:26 +0200
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Jason Kuri <jaykuri@miso.wwa.com> wrote:
>
> I just recently set up my FreeBSD system (2.0.5R) on a static-IP.
>Several places that I connect to (via telnet, ftp, etc) return that I am
>originating from an IP number. While the IP is correct, I would like to
>set it up so that it returns my hostname, It does this from my shell
>accounts, here and there... but I am at a loss to know where to set this
>up on my system.... Could someone help? or give me a push in the right
>direction?
Your IP address cannot be reverse-lookuped (is this a word creation?
:) via DNS, i.e. if you've got the IP address 193.175.26.65, there
were no DNS PTR record for 65.26.175.193.in-addr.arpa. The other
sites you're connecting to probably rely on this, and display the
numeric address otherwise.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)