Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:13:49 -0800 From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup error - cannot find it's own hostname Message-ID: <200203302016158.SM00968@there> In-Reply-To: <3CA68AE9.5020404@cream.org> References: <200203301850168.SM00968@there> <3CA68AE9.5020404@cream.org>
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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
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