Re: resolving clients' IP address on linux

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 12, Takeshi Yamane wrote:
| I have another problem on linux 2.0.36 (by Red Hat) that ircd (both
| 2.10.1 and 2.10.2) can't resolve clients' IP addresses, e.g. /whois
| doesn't show client's host name (only IP address).
| 
| I guessed this is because of compile options or of resolver config.
| I tested on sparc solaris 2.5.1 with the same ircd.conf and it works
| fine: no problem by configuration.

it could still be a configuration issue.  Depending on how
you setup I lines, a client may be accepted but the hostname
found in dns not used.  Check the documentation on I lines.

|                                    the linux box itself can resolve IP 
| address by nslookup, finger, etc.