Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:53:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Jason L. Schwab" <jlschwab@jlschwab.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: something rather weird Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112011351420.14567-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011130124538.Y24187-100000@citadel.simphost.com>
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jason L. Schwab wrote: > Heya Guys/Gals/Servers... > > I have two almost completely identical FreeBSD boxes running > and i've been running them for years, so I do know what I am > doing. In that case, the answer lies in the differences. > Question is.. on one of the two boxes (box1) when I log in > from a certain host it says "invalid hostname" for my > hostname in w/who/finger but in the /var/log it shows > accepted rsa/password for me from the right hostname. > > Box2, shows the correct hostname? any ideas? Start by diffing stuff in /etc; in particular, /etc/hosts, resolv.conf, host.conf, and so on. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Lambda calculus? I hardly know 'er! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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