Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-10 Thread Jens Müller
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My somewhat uneducated guess is that your reverse DNS might be behind > this. Notice what I get (apologies for the telnets to your box ;-): debian.enode.de is not my box, it is just a name I use internally for my box (as enode.de is my domain). debian

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-10 Thread Jens Müller
"Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ai_canonname field gives the "official name of the host", > according to "man getaddrinfo". HTH. Oh, OK ... and because my hostname does not resolve to my host ... Pretty clear now! -- Please don't CC me on replies!

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Eric C. Cooper
In telnetd.c, it does the following (slightly simplified): /* Get local host name */ gethostname(host_name, sizeof(host_name)); hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC; hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME; getaddrinfo(host_name, 0, &hints, &res); strncpy(host_name, res->ai_canonname, sizeof(

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Try 'hostname, 'hostname --fqdn' and 'dnsdomainname -v' for >> some hints. Look in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts too. I wish I >> had a simple answer for you, but I'm somewhat

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does /etc/issue.net say? You replied to my other post where I mentioned it, but again: debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h -- Please don't CC me on replies!

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try 'hostname, 'hostname --fqdn' and 'dnsdomainname -v' for some > hints. Look in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts too. I wish I had a simple > answer for you, but I'm somewhat ignorant myself. debian:/etc/news# hostname debian.enode.de debian:/etc/news# h

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> "Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I believe this comes from /etc/issue.net (probably set up >> during installation). Jens> debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h Jens> man issue.net:

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> My telnetd gives the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Jens> telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Jens> Connected to localhost. Jens> Escape character is '^]'. Jens> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de deb

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
"Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe this comes from /etc/issue.net (probably set up during > installation). debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h man issue.net: %h - show the system node name (FQDN) And where comes the system node name (FQDN) kunden

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 08:55, Jens Müller wrote: > David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost > > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > > Connected to localhost. > > > Escape character is '^]'. > > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de > > > debian.enode.de login:

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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. Ca

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:13:15AM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: > My telnetd gives the following message: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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 hav