From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 19:25:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA25333 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25328 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:25:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA19846; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:25:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Alwan cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: cvsup can't get own hostname In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Michael Alwan wrote: > Cvsup starts now--I've yet to put it to use. But I have another question: why > can't I query the host by the alias or hostname, as opposed to the numeric > address? The following commands > > host mjalwan > host mjalwan.rma.edu > > will respond "Host not found, try again." The man page for host says this > should work. Just wondering.... Try running `nslookup' and see who's reported for the server. It may be trying to reach your ISP's nameserver, and times out when it can't connect. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major