It's also possible that this has nothing to do with your system settings,
but you FTP settings.
Check your FTPd's configuration file and see if it contains the correct
hostname.

Regards,
 Douwe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Pereira" <freeserver@wintellect.co.uk>
To: "Andrzej Szeszo" <aszeszo@o2.pl>
Cc: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: FTP connection showing incorrect hostname


> Andrzej,
>
> I checked the reverse DNS, but it wasn't that - it works perfectly and
gives the correct reply.
>
> Phil.
>
> On Sun, 11 May 2003 19:36:52 +0200
> Andrzej Szeszo <aszeszo@o2.pl> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 11 May 2003 18:03:35 +0100
> > Phil Pereira <freeserver@wintellect.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > I have now setup my FTP server; however, when it is connected to - it
> > > displays an incorrect hostanme for itself, eg. it says:
> > >
> > > Connected to host.domainX.com
> > >
> > > instead of
> > >
> > > Connected to host.domainY.com
> > >
> > > Any way I can change this?  My /etc/myname file is correct and
> > > everything else seems right - even the correct name is displayed when
> > > the system boots. Any ideas?
> >
> > I think it's related to rev dns. I'm almost sure that "nslookup
> > ip.of.your.ftpserver" command will give you host.domainX.com as a
> > result.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,     -- listen to the smashing pumpkins --
> >  Andrzej
>
>
> --
> Phil.
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