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 > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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