From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 18: 5:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns2.digitalglobe.com (dns2.digitalglobe.com [205.166.175.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3351C37B404 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:05:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from lohr.digitalglobe.com (lohr.digitalglobe.com [10.10.11.18]) by dns2.digitalglobe.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g2625Is21152; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:05:18 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: Hostid Question From: John-David Childs To: Vijai Gandikota Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020305221955.24747.qmail@web9802.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020305221955.24747.qmail@web9802.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2-4mdk Date: 05 Mar 2002 19:05:18 -0700 Message-Id: <1015380318.14282.225.camel@lohr> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 hostid is broken in FreeBSD (it isn't, apparently, automatically set...and I could only find one bug report about it: kern/21132. You might try using the lmutil program from http://www.globetrotter.com/lmgrd.htm". They have Linux, BSDI, and FreeBSD (3.4) versions of lmutil. At the time I wrote this, it *appeared* as if Globetrotter Software was having DNS problems (I got an internal IP address for their FTP server - ftp.globes.com). The IP address you want is 192.156.198.196 On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 15:19, Vijai Gandikota wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a question regarding the hostid of a machine > running FreeBSD. Entering the following command at > command line > > % sysctl kern.hostid > > gives me > > kern.hostid: 0 > > I noticed in a couple of emails sent by other people > using FreeBSD (with the output of various system > values including hostid) that their hostid's also said > 0. > Is this normal? On UNIX normally when I enter the > command > % hostid > > I get a 8 letter alphanumeric value like 23a4076b. > > My next question is do I need to change the hostid > from 0 to any other value? > > If anyone has any suggestions in the regard please let > me know. > Thank you > Vijai > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > 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