From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 19:46:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA15123 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15111 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jegelhof@cloud9.net) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (IDENT:QRc1uwk8Gq/7n8Wjn/7wP/ulkRUzWGGP@earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0/rc-19980602) with SMTP id WAA09559 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:45:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:45:48 -0400 (EDT) From: James Egelhof To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WHO: invalid hostname? In-Reply-To: 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 Is there some way that the system can be configured to put the IP address there instead of the (useless) text "invalid hostname"? -james On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > What causes the below? > > > > lomar p6 invalid hostname 2:09PM 4 ssh -l marcus > > > > Misconfigured DNS such that a reverse DNS doesn't work? > > It happens when reverse DNS returns a hostname for which a forward DNS > lookup fails. --- James Egelhof jegelhof@cloud9.net Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. +1 (914) 696-4000 White Plains, New York http://www.cloud9.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message