From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 14:14:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0874C14FDC for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11mNW9-0000m0-00; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:41:57 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11mNW9-0000BQ-00; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:41:57 +0000 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:41:57 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles using cvsup Message-ID: <19991112204157.B638@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Tried to run cvsup ports-supfile > Got:Cannot get IP address of my own host - is its hostname correct? > (my ISP use dynamic IP-adresses if it does care) > Question:What should I do futher? This might work: # echo $(hostname) 127.0.0.1 >> /etc/hosts What is your hostname set to? Since you have dynamic IP, you probably just made up a hostname. If you did, add that to /etc/hosts with the IP address 127.0.0.1 (as the above command would). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message