From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 14:33:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from samwise.jobeus.net (samwise.jobeus.net [209.91.102.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746EA37B41A for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:33:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by samwise.jobeus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g31MUhT05800 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:30:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@jobeus.net) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:30:43 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Carmichael To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /var/log/wtmp question Message-ID: <20020401152605.A5658-100000@samwise.jobeus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What's up with unresolvable hostnames when logging in? When I used to log into my box from the school, using OpenBSD 3.0, both using 'who' and 'last' would show an IP as the hostname that the box at school reported did not exist (to the outside world), so instead it would just log the IP. However, now with FreeBSD 4.5, it's logged it as "invalid hostname", thus giving me no indication of where someone logged in, if the hostname doesn't resolve. How can I fix this, and why does FreeBSD do this? Or is it even 'fixable'? Thanks, Scott Carmichael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message