From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 5:54:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE0837B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 05:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:54:04 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16AAZq-00044e-00; Sat, 01 Dec 2001 13:53:10 +0000 Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:53:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: "Jason L. Schwab" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: something rather weird In-Reply-To: <20011130124538.Y24187-100000@citadel.simphost.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jason L. Schwab wrote: > Heya Guys/Gals/Servers... > > I have two almost completely identical FreeBSD boxes running > and i've been running them for years, so I do know what I am > doing. In that case, the answer lies in the differences. > Question is.. on one of the two boxes (box1) when I log in > from a certain host it says "invalid hostname" for my > hostname in w/who/finger but in the /var/log it shows > accepted rsa/password for me from the right hostname. > > Box2, shows the correct hostname? any ideas? Start by diffing stuff in /etc; in particular, /etc/hosts, resolv.conf, host.conf, and so on. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Lambda calculus? I hardly know 'er! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message