Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:44:12 -0400 From: Robert Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> To: "Jane Frodo" <jfrodo42@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "invalid hostname" on "last" Message-ID: <l0310283ab22d67d2b763@[140.228.15.35]> In-Reply-To: <19980922002118.3016.qmail@hotmail.com>
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At 8:21 PM -0400 9/21/1998, Jane Frodo wrote: > We have a user who always shows "invalid hostname" when >we "last <username>". 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 <r-beer@onu.edu> 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
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