On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:05:45PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Usually problems occur if you don't have reverse lookups working. If you 
> ssh twice in succesion to another machine, an it says "Last log in from 
> <IP ADDRESS>" then you don't have reverse lookups working. Either setup 
> DDNS (which will do this for you - quite cool if you have more that 5 
> machines ....) or add a new zone for your subnet (it's network address), 
> with PTR records for all the machines.

You know the w command will show you the address you're connected from,
hostname if you reverse resolve.  No reason to double ssh.

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