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From: jaykuri@miso.wwa.com (Jason Kuri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: symbolic name vs IP returned, how?
Date: 29 Aug 1995 12:24:05 GMT
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  I just recently set up my FreeBSD system (2.0.5R) on a static-IP.  
Several places that I connect to (via telnet, ftp, etc) return that I am 
originating from an IP number.  While the IP is correct, I would like to 
set it up so that it returns my hostname, It does this from my shell 
accounts, here and there... but I am at a loss to know where to set this 
up on my system.... Could someone help? or give me a push in the right 
direction?

Thanks in advance,

Jay Kuri

---
Mind you, I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what 
there is particularly dead about a door-nail.  I might have been 
inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of 
ironmongery in the trade.