Re: Host Names

patrick@value.net
Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:42:10 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Rudy Behrend wrote:

> I added 10 ports to a 20 port portmaster. I added host names to
> the 10 new IP address that the portmaster would add to the IP pool since
> there are 10 new ports. The portmaster assigns the new IP address fine,
> but no hostnames. I have used nslookup, and the hostnames are there.
> This causes problems when customers use mirc and telnet, they have to
> manually enter the host name depending upon the IP address they get.
> Any Ideas what I did wrong?

Did you also put reverse DNS entries in for the hostnames?

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Patrick Greenwell (510) 943-5769 voice
Systems Administrator (510) 210-2000 modem
Value Net, Inc. (510) 943-1708 fax
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