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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.


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