From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 5:36:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berbee.com (berbee.com [205.173.176.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518C937B405 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (cl3079007-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [65.3.254.217]) by berbee.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f9HCaB025989; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:36:11 -0500 Message-Id: <200110171236.f9HCaB025989@berbee.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Rob Zietlow To: lahaye@users.sourceforge.net, "Rob Lahaye" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup "cannot get IP address of my own host" ?? Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:35:51 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20011017.AAA1003309910@postech.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <20011017.AAA1003309910@postech.ac.kr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 I had this issue after I rebuilt world. check that there is an entry for your host name in your /etc/hostname. Once I plugged in my hostname corresponding to 127.0.0.1 cvsup worked fine for me again Rob On Wednesday 17 October 2001 04:20 am, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having one PC with a fixed IP address, but this > IP address is not registered as a hostname. > > I have another PC, that is connected via ADSL to an ISP, > which provides my with a dynamical IP address, which is > not accompanied by a registered hostname. > > So both PC's have a legal IP address, but no official > hostname. When I try to "cvsup" my ports, I get on > both PC's: > > $ cvsup -L2 my-ports-supfile > Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? > $ > > I tried then: > > $ cvsup -A x.x.x.x -L2 ports-supfile > Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? > $ > > Where x.x.x.x is the appropriate IP address. But to no avail. > > What can I do about this? > > Thanks for help. > > Rob > [ Please cc a reply also to my personal email address - Thanks ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message