on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:43:29PM +0200, Csontos B. Laszlo (lacee@pc1.jagik.sulinet.hu) wrote: > > Dear List members, > > I've realized the following problem on my machine. When I perform a finger > command, I'll get the following: > > Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone > admin System administra pts/1 May 24 19:01 (192.168.1.42) > egon Csizmadia Gabor pts/3 May 24 19:01 (192.168.1.54) > lacee Csontos B. Laszlo pts/2 May 24 19:01 (192.168.1.42) > > I don't know why aren't the IPs resolved. I've got internal DNS. Curious. In my case, hosts are resolved through finger, whether I'm querying the local sever or remote ones. > I've tried different diagnostic procedures, like this: > > [root:~]# host 192.168.1.54 > Name: d21.b8.jagik.sulinet.hu > Address: 192.168.1.54 > > [root:~]# nslookup 192.168.1.54 > Server: localhost > Address: 127.0.0.1 > > Name: d21.b8.jagik.sulinet.hu > Address: 192.168.1.54 > > resolv.conf: > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 ...if you're fingering a remote server, does this server have an entry for your DNS box? Not sure that this matters, but I had a rather flagrently broken DNS here until I got reverse DNS configured propery and convinced one of my boxen to stop rewriting its resolv.conf. > nameserver 195.199.74.125 > nameserver 195.199.0.157 > domain jagik.sulinet.hu > search jagik.sulinet.hu > > host.conf: > > order hosts,bind > multi on -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Disclaimer: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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