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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Reeh <michaelr@ss454.dyn.ml.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange Reverse DNS problem.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980722203518.27722A-100000@ss454.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980723111237.H8993@freebie.lemis.com>

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>From what I've noticed, that's how its supposed to be. Are you sure that
the 'last' entries that are displayed as the actual hostname (as opposed
to the IP #) aren't in your /etc/host* files? Just a thought..


mike reeh
breadfan!michaelr@ss454.dyn.ml.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
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