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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:15:55 -0800
From:      John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net>
To:        chip.wiegand@simrad.com, mpd@rochester.rr.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hostname problem, apparently only in X
Message-ID:  <200204240615.g3O6FtJ02941@pen.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <OF8A2628B2.054EA2A9-ON88256BA4.0080842C-88256BA4.0080E561@simrad.no>
References:  <OF8A2628B2.054EA2A9-ON88256BA4.0080842C-88256BA4.0080E561@simrad.no>

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Your DHCP server is not supplying proper reverse DNSs or is not
resolving them properly.  Lots of wierd thing go wrong when this
does not work. 
Your reverse must resolve. (Try to ping it).


On Tuesday 23 April 2002 03:27 pm, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote:
> mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com> wrote on 04/23/2002 04:07:26 PM:
> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:53:54PM -0700, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote:
> > > I seem to be seeing some new errors I haven't seen in other installs.
>
> This
>
> > > time its in a
> > > term window in X. When I try to run cvsup cvsupfile I get the
>
> following
>
> > > message -
> > >
> > > Cannot get IP address of my own host - - is it's host name correct?
> > >
> > > I don't get this when I run from the console, only when in X. Maybe
>
> this
>
> > > is related to a
> > > problem with X itself? When I shutdown X the messages on the console
>
> show
>
> > > -
> > >
> > > waiting for xserver to shut down
> > > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "cwiegand2:0" in "remove" command
> > >
> > > when I enter hostname at the console I get
> > > cwiegand2
> > >
> > > Any idea what I should do about this?
> >
> > Is that the *real* hostname (i.e. is cwiegand2 returned when you
> > do an nslookup on your IP?) or just some name you gave it?
>
> When I do nslookup with my ipaddress I get
> Can't find server name for address 157.237.xx.xxx: nonexistant host/domain
> Server: Cache02.ns.uu.net
> Address: 198.x.x.x
> Cache02.ns.uu.net can't find 157.237.65.118: nonexistant host/domain
>
> We have a dhcp server, NT, ip 157.237.xx.xxx. My freebsd box gets it's
> info from that dhcp server.

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And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do.
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John Andersen / Juneau Alaska

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