Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:29:07 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: Chuck <chuckw@wave.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another Question... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981119142547.4700A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811191403030.1722-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Chuck wrote:
> > I have a server on the net that I just set up... It's running some perl
> > scripts that are part of a chat program... The scripts use a variable
> > $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'} to find out the domain name of the remote host...
> > For some reason ( I'm sure it's something I did wrong ) I can only get
> > the domain numbers and not the domain name to show up... Any Ideas??
That's a CGI env variable. Your web server sets this before calling
the cgi program. Either you have hostname lookup turned off (Apache's
default) or your resolver/named is setup wrong. Probably the former.
See httpd.conf
Dan
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