From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 20: 3:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk (pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E461437B400 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1803 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2002 04:03:45 -0000 Received: from spatula.home (HELO cream.org) (192.168.0.4) by myriad.home with SMTP; 31 Mar 2002 04:03:45 -0000 Message-ID: <3CA68AE9.5020404@cream.org> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 05:04:57 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Wiegand Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup error - cannot find it's own hostname References: <200203301850168.SM00968@there> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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