It is with GREAT embarassment that I admit my stupidity - for completeness sake!

Jeremy was 100% spot on - I had made an error in the /etc/hosts file, and it was from here that FTP was obtaining its host name.

At least it is now all sorted (correctly)! Thanks to EVERYONE for all their help  :)

Phil.

On Mon, 12 May 2003 09:11:25 -0700 (PDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2003, Phil Pereira 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?
> 
> This "Connected to" message is from the FTP client. The client uses
> getaddrinfo(3) to do this name lookup.
> 
> So check the /etc/hosts, nsswitch and DNS setup for the client system (not
> the server).
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
> 


-- 
Phil.
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