From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 5:50:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spitfire.velocet.net (spitfire.velocet.net [216.138.223.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3244C37B401 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 05:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wenk (H204.C233.tor.velocet.net [216.138.233.204]) by spitfire.velocet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B5139FB463F; Mon, 6 May 2002 08:50:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000601c1f516$3d666190$b300a8c0@wenk> From: "Jeff Shevlen" To: Cc: References: <000901c1f414$36f6ed00$b300a8c0@wenk> <200205050651.g456pQI07020@pen.homeip.net> <001601c1f421$0ff6b890$b300a8c0@wenk> <200205050800.g4580qC07399@pen.homeip.net> Subject: Re: mysql & ISP hostname Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 13:16:07 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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). > That's what it's doing all right. Thanks for your help. My question was a little off topic I realize. I'll try the MySQL list or something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message