From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 16:22:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CDC16A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smithers.nildram.co.uk (smithers.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B322543FBD for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:22:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from outpost_593@bobulous.net) Received: from bobulous.net (orbital.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.215.230]) by smithers.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5562508FF; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:22:49 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3F873F44.4000205@bobulous.net> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:22:44 +0100 From: Robert Downes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: ar, es, fr, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Reichert References: <3F862EA7.7000402@lineone.net> <20031010162031.GO56167@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031010162031.GO56167@numachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: named sandbox trouble X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:22:52 -0000 Brian Reichert wrote: >On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:59:35AM +0100, Robert Downes wrote: > > >>I'm trying to setup BIND so that my machine understands its own hostname >>(because mySQL refuses to install because the hostname appears invalid >>and the --force option seems to do nothing), and because it would be >>helpful generally. >> >> > >This doesn't answer your question, as I don't run BIND, but couldn't >you just put an entry in /etc/hosts? > > > I have an entry for my machine's IP address and the address of my router in /etc/hosts, but still I get complaints. >And: you mention MySQL --force option 'seeming to do nothing': I >have used this option when I'm building from source, and it worked >for me in the past. What symptoms are you seeing? > > > I type make install --force, but still the process exits with error code 1, complaining of an invalid hostname, despite my /etc/hosts file. I was hoping that running a local name server would cheer mySQL up, but I just keep getting this error with /var/run/ndc. -- Bob