Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:45:21 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles using cvsup Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911130041450.18341-100000@sun33> In-Reply-To: <19991112204157.B638@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > 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: But does not. > > # 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). Nope I have changed hostname (and not hostadress!!!) to Ariel.zhesitianka.de(default was myname.mydomain.org)or something very similar to it so I did not cosidered this change as being critical is it not? Should I change it back? > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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