Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 05:04:57 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup error - cannot find it's own hostname Message-ID: <3CA68AE9.5020404@cream.org> References: <200203301850168.SM00968@there>
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Chip Wiegand wrote: >I am getting the following error when running cvsup, but only from one >machine - > >chip3# cvsup ports-supfile >Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? > > >Any ideas why this machine can ping the server but not get it's ip address? > The problem that cvsup is having is that it can't look up the IP address of your own machine, not the remote cvsup server. You should enter the IP address of your host into /etc/hosts along with its hostname to prevent this type of problem happening. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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