From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 1: 1: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pen.homeip.net (72-17-237-24-cable.juneau.ak.net [24.237.17.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD88837B419 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 01:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by pen.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) id g4580qC07399; Sun, 5 May 2002 00:00:52 -0800 Message-Id: <200205050800.g4580qC07399@pen.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: John Andersen Reply-To: jsa@pen.homeip.net To: "Jeff Shevlen" Subject: Re: mysql & ISP hostname Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 00:00:22 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: References: <000901c1f414$36f6ed00$b300a8c0@wenk> <200205050651.g456pQI07020@pen.homeip.net> <001601c1f421$0ff6b890$b300a8c0@wenk> In-Reply-To: <001601c1f421$0ff6b890$b300a8c0@wenk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 05 May 2002 02:38 am, Jeff Shevlen wrote: > The name that MySQL indicated I use ("xxx.xxx.my.isp.net") is an alias > under somebody's network.  Nslookup confirms that this address is > aliasing to my IP; but also, and I don't know if this is relevant, > nslookup seems to be getting this response from my ISP's ISP. Its your reverse DNS... dig -x your.ip.here will yield your reverse dns in the answer section. MySQL seems to be taking your reverse dns as your machine name (perhaps this is one of the security options, I don't know, cuz I don't run MySQL). -- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message