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Article #167Re: hostname
From: Michael Dwyer
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:00
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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote: : Okay, this is really weird, hostname returns ftp.cnhp.colostate.edu. I : have it set to mail.cnhp.colostate.edu in /etc/sysconfig/network, and if : I do a nslookup, it's listed as mail with ftp as an alias. What's up : with this? Make sure that your reverse DNS and DNS are correct... What DNS thinks your computer is named, and what your computer thinks is is named should probably jive -- at least a little... Err.... I should say that dnslookup only looks at the DNS records, and never actually asks the machine what it thinks its own name is. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael J. Dwyer I doubt, therefore I might be. mdwyer@holly.ColoState.edu http://WWW.CS.ColoState.EDU/~dwyer/ Computer Science Major Amateur Radio Tech N0ZAP
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From: Michael Dwyer <mdwyer@holly.ColoState.EDU>
Subject: Re: hostname
Date: 2000/02/23
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