From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 00:25:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA06481 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:25:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA06456 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA16107; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:25:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:25:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Keith Spencer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is bind..waz it do?? In-Reply-To: <199709260330.NAA27729@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Keith Spencer wrote: > Hi patient and sentient peoples, > At boot time, I notice that... > a) syslogd can't bind and can't assign > address requested > > b) httpd can't bind to port 80 and can't assign address requested > (didn't know I had!) > > What does bind do & Is there a pattern happening here that is > stopping these daemons from doing their thing?? > I'm a bit perplexed... Yes, if no network interfaces are configured, then there are no addresses to assign. Check your network card configuration. This happens to me when I go home away from my Ethernet and have to use dialup. Everything is used to looking for a network, and when I take it away it puts up a fit until I fudge the /etc/hosts file again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major