From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 10:52:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (dns.megared.net.mx [200.52.207.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C7837B92F for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 10:52:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.41]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA32972; Wed, 10 May 2000 12:52:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <12a801bfbaa8$596ab260$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "CA" , References: <200004271420.QAA29749@nic.savba.sk> Subject: Re: unable to gethostbyname("") Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:51:20 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Define a hostname for this server in /etc/hosts file. Good Luck Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: "CA" To: Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 11:19 AM Subject: unable to gethostbyname("") > Hello, > > I have a question. I have a FreeBSD 4.0 Release and I can't get my apache > working. I'm a single user - I don't have a network, only dial-up. I have both > FreeBSD and Linux installed and apache in Linux works. The starting script for > apache says this: [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname(""), so I can't > get httpd to run. > > I read your mailing lists but didn't find a solution that works for me. I compared > /etc/hosts and /etc/resolve.conf with Linux and they seem to be almost identical. > In resolve.conf in FreeBSD i have "hosts" and in resolve.conf I have my local host > specified with 127.0.0.1 number. > > I need this information because I plan to install FreeBSD later on some systems. > > Sincerely, > freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG George > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message