Re: telnetd prompt
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 08:55, Jens Müller wrote:
> David Jardine <jardine@tesionmail.de> writes:
>
> > > jens@debian:~$ telnet localhost
> > > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > > Connected to localhost.
> > > Escape character is '^]'.
> > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de
> > > debian.enode.de login:
> > >
> > > I have no idea where the kundenserver.de comes from. Can anyone help
> > > me?
> >
> > Well, I've certainly seen it here, but I've just grepped my
> > latest syslog and exim log and not found it. I think it was
> > connected with an ISP - einsundeins, perhaps. But I've no
> > idea how it got where you found it.
>
> Schlund is owner of kundenserver.de, yes, but I really don't know how
> MY telnetd could put it in its prompt.
Maybe from /etc/resolv.conf. Since my IP address is given by a
DHCP client, the DHCP client also generates /etc/resolv.conf, and
it specifies my ISP in the "search" clause.
For example:
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
search no.cox.net
nameserver 68.11.16.30
nameserver 68.1.208.30
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| Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: ron.l.johnson@cox.net |
| Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 |
| |
| "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements |
| and make them into big productions." |
| Pitr Dubovitch |
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