From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 14 20:43:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b110.otenet.gr [195.167.121.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51AAB37B406 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:43:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: by hades.hell.gr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 595F52C3; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:43:15 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:43:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Karl Agee Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems getting updates (still) Message-ID: <20010715064314.A13904@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010715040844.A12939@hades.hell.gr> <20010715033558.77203.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010715033558.77203.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com>; from kdagee2@yahoo.com on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:35:58PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html 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 From: Karl Agee Subject: Re: problems getting updates (still) Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:35:58PM -0700 > Hi Giorgos, thanks for replying, here goes: > > --- Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > From: Karl Agee > > Subject: problems getting updates (still) > > Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:14:15AM -0700 > > > > > using the supfile from the handbook, and setting the > > > server to cvsup8.freebsd.org (the closest one to me) > > > > What supfile? Can we see it, please? > > you asked for it: 8-) Your supfile seems ok. The problem lies somewhere else. > > > I get the following output: > > > > > > Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its > > > hostname correct? > > > > This probably means that your /etc/hosts file does > > not contain IP > > addresses for one or more of the IP's your network > > interfaces have. > > What is your network setup ? > > single workstation; dialup account. nothing fancy. > > here is /etc/hosts: > > bash-2.03$ cat /etc/hosts > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.11 2000/02/15 14:59:16 shin Exp $ > # > # Host Database > # This file should contain the addresses and aliases > # for local hosts that share this file. > # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may > # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. > # > # > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain > ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain You should probably edit this one and put something more meaningful in my.domain and myname.mydomain. But this seems ok for the moment... > > > > > > anything else I can do?? > > > > Provide us with more information. Describing exactly what you did, > > and including all the relevant information. Any files that are > > involved, information on the setup of your machine, including but not > > limited to: network interfaces, how they are brought > > up, their addresses, etc. > > like I said real simple. Using kppp to establish > connection. launched the above cvsup supfile from a > root window. Not very helpful in guessing what could be wrong. I'd be interested to the output of the following commands while you are connected: # ifconfig -au # netstat -nr It looks like you have some networking problem, and not a problem with CVSup itself. The contents of the files /etc/host.conf (or, if you're using NIS, this would be /etc/nsswitch.conf) and /etc/resolv.conf are also things I'd like to see. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message