From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 22:22: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF9337B423 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3N5LlQ21573; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:21:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:21:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan Stehling To: Josh Paetzel Cc: Doug Wilson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: would like snappy ftp & telnet service, any thoughts? In-Reply-To: <01042300163603.00281@mark9.vladsempire.net> 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 One way which may help you from your workstation at least would be to add your IP address to the /etc/hosts files so that it will just override DNS and use that information. If you happen to know the IP address of all the machines which need to do ftp/telnet you can do the same for them, but still it is best to correct the DNS so that it does reverse DNS properly. But if you are on a private network (192.128.0.0) you may never have DNS for that. It may be a good idea to just go with a hosts files that you syncronize among all your servers. I am not sure if you mentioned your role in all of this, but I would talk with the Network Administrator about all this and get it all brought up to par. Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator my projects: home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting) www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search) On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Monday 23 April 2001 00:01, Doug Wilson wrote: > > Thanks guys for the clue. Reverse dns makes sense. Now I need to research > > that as I don't know where to begin. Anyone like to point me again in the > > right direction as the what file to config and like how? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Doug. > > > > PS: this list is like real responsive! > > Well, I should be in bed, but that's the way it goes I guess. To help you > out much with DNS, I would need to know a bit about your network. There is a > pretty good chapter on it in Greg Lehey's book, "The Complete FreeBSD" > > Josh > > 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