From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 22 20:38:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28061 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:38:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ss454.dyn.ml.org (michaelr@putc7159016.cts.com [204.216.159.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28051 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:38:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelr@ss454.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (michaelr@localhost) by ss454.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA04982; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelr@ss454.dyn.ml.org) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:38:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Reeh To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Reverse DNS problem. In-Reply-To: <19980723111237.H8993@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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