From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 15:46:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC0114BEE for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:45:39 +0100 Received: from sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.133]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 11mQFw-0004y6-00; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:37:24 +0100 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18352; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:45:23 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:45:21 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun33 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles using cvsup In-Reply-To: <19991112204157.B638@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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