From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Aug  1 22:55:31 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A03F37B401
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed,  1 Aug 2001 22:55:28 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se)
Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127])
	by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f725tOh06883;
	Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:55:24 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-ID: <XFMail.010802075601.mj@isy.liu.se>
X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <3B683A56.9580DAD1@i-clue.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:56:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
Subject: Re: problem with cvsup
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu>
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


On 01-Aug-01 Christoph Sold wrote:
> 
> 
> Russell Francis wrote:
>> 
>> I am trying to update my source tree from 4.2-Release to 4.x-Stable.  When
>> I start cvsup it gives the following error message.
>> 
>> Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?
>> 
>> My network connection works great.  Does anyone know why this is happening
>> and or how to fix it?
> 
> It seems your reverse name mapping is not set up correctly. CVSup needs
> both forward and reverse name mapping to work. WWW traffic needs only
> forward mapping. Complain at your system administrator or network
> provider.

You can set this yourself if you have:

1. ifconfig -a                          --> IP-adress of your interface.
2. nslookup IP-adress-from-above        --> hostname as letters
3. hostname hostname-as-letter-from above --> sets an OK hostname
4. Now cvsup will work!

> 
> HTH
> -Christoph Sold
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

----------------------------------
Michael Josefsson, MSEE
mj@isy.liu.se

This message was sent by XFMail
running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE
----------------------------------

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message