[plug] Problem with gethostbyname

[Craig Foster]

Ummm
nslookup -sil
>144.137.234.225
CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au.
Authoritative answers can be found from:
234.137.144.in-addr.arpa        nameserver = ns1.bigpond.net.au.
<insert more telstra dns>

And back the other way...
>CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au.
Address: 144.137.234.225

Is your IP actually 144.137.234.225? Have you added the . at the end of
the hostname?
Do you have the local IP mapped to something else on YOUR DNS server?
(yunno internal vs external DNS)
Why does red wine in abundance make your tongue purple?

Oops, scrub that one :P

Regards,

Craig F.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Clark [mailto:tclark at telia.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:55 PM
> 
> Seems like it is failing on a reverse DNS lookup.  Does the machine 
> really exist in Bigponds DNS.  It doesn't seem to resolve to anything 
> here.
>
> tony
>
> quoting "Mark A. Sasse" <biker at bigpond.net.au>:
> 
> > I have been having some problems with RH6.2.  I've 
> configured RH6.2 to
> > accept telnet connections from certain IP addresses.
> >
> > In the hosts.allow file, I have
> > ALL: .wa.bigpond.net.au: ALLOW
> >
> > However, when I look in the secure file in /var/logs, I get a 
> getbyhostname failed error message.
> >
> > The message is
> > can't verify hostname :
> > gethostbyname(CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au)failed
> >
> > Is this something to do with the gethostbyname function in RH6.2?
> >
> > Mark

> Tony Clark
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