From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 22 07:43:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14992 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:43:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14987 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:43:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Received: from [140.228.15.35] (asterion.onu.edu [140.228.15.35]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24468; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:43:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980922002118.3016.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:44:12 -0400 To: "Jane Frodo" , FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Robert Beer Subject: Re: "invalid hostname" on "last" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:21 PM -0400 9/21/1998, Jane Frodo wrote: > We have a user who always shows "invalid hostname" when >we "last ". The problem is it looks ok on nslookup! >One of the ip's you can look at is 209.63.23.76. This IP has >no DNS errors I can _see_, but last _hates_ it! > > What is last trying to tell me about this IP? Either the reverse dns lookup fails or the FQDN is greater than 16 characters in length. Probably the latter if nslookup turns up consistent data. --- Bob Beer Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message