[ale] Ga Tech's FTP server status

[Steve Jones]

Being the newbie that I am:
The problem I ran into didn't occur until I had changed the machines name
from localhost.localdomain. When I first installed on this machine, I didn't
have a name for the machine so I didn't give it one. The prompt on my
command line was set to the machine name (it said localhost). When I dialed
in, it would change to something like what you gave me below
(ie.user-38lcac4). At that point everything seemed to work fine.

When I figured out how to change the name and local domain, I did (hey the
prompt looked cooler). I changed it to heilein.maninspace. The next time I
dialed in, I got an error while using Netscape that said something to the
effect of "heilein.maninspace not found in DNS". I was told that this had to
do with the reverse lookup. 

My question is what did I do wrong? Where should I go from here? etc?

Thanx
Steve

-----Original Message-----
 From: Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu [mailto:Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 10:19 AM
To: Steve Jones
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] Ga Tech's FTP server status


At 09:26 AM 6/8/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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?

Just because Mindspring is giving you a dynamic IP address doesn't mean it
will not appear in the DNS tables.

     user-38lcac4.dialup.mindspring.com = 209.86.41.132

The headers in the original message showed that lilElvis at smyrnacable.net
sent the email from a host named 24-216-30-23.hsacorp.net

>Received: from 24-216-30-23.hsacorp.net (HELO Smyrna361) (24.216.30.23) 
>by catvnet-115-84.catvnet.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 1999 22:49:39 -0000 

I can't do an nslookup on 24-216-30-23.hsacorp.net.  Your ISP must put it's
dialup IP addresses in a DNS table.  If they don't you'll have this problem.

I believe that is why GaTech's FTP is rejecting his connection via TCP
Wrapper's paranoid option.

My $.02,
Stan