no... it reads a some sort of a DNS hostname.domainname record. but I'm not sure how it determines that. could be localsetting could be forward lookup reverse lookup. am I missing anything? how would I determine. <div> On 8/22/06, Charles Ulrich <<a href="mailto:charles@idealso.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> charles@idealso.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Caleb Cushing wrote: > when using putty to ssh where does it get the info from  that's in the > title bar? seems I've been cracked. I need to be more paranoid. but > first I need to figure out how much damage was caused. At a guess, it's probably reading the escape sequences mentioned here: <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html </a> -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC -- <a href="http://www.idealso.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.idealso.com</a> </blockquote></div>