[ale] Ga Tech's FTP server status

[Steve Jones]

To extend the question: 

How do you deal with a situation like mindspring where they are supplying
you with a different IP address everytime you log on and you  want to give
your computer some other name than localhost.localdomain?

-----Original Message-----
 From: Irv [mailto:irv at ellijay.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 8:48 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Ga Tech's FTP server status




On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu wrote:

> At 09:19 PM 6/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Phil Heaton wrote:
> >
> >> If the server cannot read your hostname, it probably
> >> will not allow access. Make sure you're entered into
> >> the dns.
> >
> >For those of use that are new to this kind of thing,
> >how do we do that?
> 
> I think it's paranoid mode in TCP_Wrapper.  If that's on (it used to be a
> compile option) and the IP address/hostname that you present is not the
> same as a DNS query result, then your connection is rejected.

It appears the Tech server is trying a reverse lookup, which fails.
At least, that is what their message says. (I get the same message
from some of the more paranoid European sites)
How do I fix this? That is: how do I present an IP address/hostname that
IS the same as a DNS query result?

Irv