From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 20:12:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8722F37B417 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from there [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id AD8690A900EC; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:16:06 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chip Wiegand To: Andrew Boothman Subject: Re: cvsup error - cannot find it's own hostname Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:13:49 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200203301850168.SM00968@there> <3CA68AE9.5020404@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <3CA68AE9.5020404@cream.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200203302016158.SM00968@there> 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 On Saturday 30 March 2002 20:04, Andrew Boothman wrote: > 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. Thanks for the reminder, I just set up the box last week and I forgot to set up the entries in hosts. Thanks, Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message