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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!torn!news.bc.net!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with machine being recognized by remote hosts Date: 16 Nov 1995 06:39:10 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <48emae$b97@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <48c3as$bd@news.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <48c3as$bd@news.cais.com>, duvall@aztec.atlatl.com says... > > > I can't seem to get remote machines to recognize my name address, they >only seem to get my IP address. When I telnet to other machines from the >machines at school, the remote system recognizes them as 'umbc10.umbc.edu' >or whatever, when I connect to remote systems it recognizes me as >205.177.8.202, nslookup on 205.177.8.202 returns my name machines name >address No it doesn't, at least not from here: haven# nslookup Default Server: haven.uniserve.com Address: 198.53.215.121 > 205.177.8.202 Server: haven.uniserve.com Address: 198.53.215.121 *** haven.uniserve.com can't find 205.177.8.202: Non-existent host/domain > You need to talk to the DNS admin for the 205.177.8.0 network, and have him/her check the config because it is not working. Tom