From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 1 10:18:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7506737B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA20800; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:26:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3B683A56.9580DAD1@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:20:22 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell Francis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with cvsup References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Russell Francis wrote: > > I am trying to update my source tree from 4.2-Release to 4.x-Stable. When > I start cvsup it gives the following error message. > > Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? > > My network connection works great. Does anyone know why this is happening > and or how to fix it? It seems your reverse name mapping is not set up correctly. CVSup needs both forward and reverse name mapping to work. WWW traffic needs only forward mapping. Complain at your system administrator or network provider. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message