From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 13:36:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22005 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21790 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11571; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:29:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199806152029.VAA11571@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using CVSup on a temporary PPP connection ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:32:43 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:29:00 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello, > > I would like to track the developpment of -stable on my home box, so I > loaded the repository (from the 2,2.6-R CD-ROM) on a separate > partition of my disk. I wanted to get up to date with stable (via > CVSup). > > My connection to the Internet is via a PPP link, and the IP address > for my end of the PPP link changes from connection to connection. As I > don't have a permanent IP address, the name of my machine is still > mymachine.my.domain (dafault of rc.conf). > > cvsup complains because it can't resolve this name. > > I could get around this by setting the host name after the the PPP - > linkup, but it is a kludge (and this won't work when I set up a > private network with PPP aliasing). > > Is there a better solution ? (CTM ?) Put an entry for mymachine.my.domain in /etc/hosts and change the ordering in /etc/host.conf. You may as well take the opportunity to personalise the machine with a nicer name though. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message