From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 22 18:50:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13096 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12819 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:49:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA13952; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:12:37 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980723111237.H8993@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:12:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jaime Bozza , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Reverse DNS problem. References: <000001bdb58f$57a4a280$333d31cc@electron.nuc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000001bdb58f$57a4a280$333d31cc@electron.nuc.net>; from Jaime Bozza on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 11:39:49AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 22 July 1998 at 11:39:49 -0500, Jaime Bozza wrote: > I was hoping someone here can answer this. > > On a FreeBSD (2.2.7-Stable) system I use, reverse DNS seems to work > sometimes and other times it doesn't. For example, a "w" or finger command > will show the hostnames fine, but last shows IP addresses. (Not for > everything though. Some IPs in last are shown correctly as hostnames while > others are just IPs) > > Any idea what could be wrong? This looks like a problem with last(1). I get it as well. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message