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  From: Adam Crawford <ca@granite.net.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:53:15 +0930

Re: problem with login to redhat 6.2

there was no sarcasm,

There was however, me asking for someone to explain how DNS effected the
login
And there was also a Joke at the end of my message.

<sarcasm>
Next time, I will include little Tags so that you know this.
</sarcasm>

I cant see how it would do a lookup on logon,
You set a hostname for the machine, the machine accepts this
as it needs to know what to call itself, no matter if it resolves or not..

I might be wrong, but hey if I am, please do let me know.

For the record anyway, Geoff has decided to reinstall linux on the machine,
so I guess the problem has no need to be looked at anymore.

Regards,
Adam

Flames to /dev/null
Thread is dead.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robyn Manning" <rmanning@powercom.com.au>
To: "Adam Crawford" <ca@granite.net.au>; "Linux SA" <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: problem with login to redhat 6.2


Hi Adam

When I login my prompt changes to robyn@kanga, I think it did a DNS lookup
to
get that info.

And I don't really think the sarcasm in your message is necessary (-;

Robyn

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:01, Adam Crawford wrote:
> Sorry, could you explain how DNS would be the problem when you cant login
> to a computer via its terminal?
>
> I can see how a network login would be effected, but when loging on
> normaly, not via a network...
> How does DNS effect this?
>
> I dont think I've ever see a linux box try to "nslookup
> tty1.local.keyboard.monitor.mouse"
>
> Cheers,
> Adam


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