Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:48:18 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: ralphdewitt@charter.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preinstall Questions? Message-ID: <3FB15922.7050408@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200311110440.06926.ralphdewitt@charter.net> References: <200311110440.06926.ralphdewitt@charter.net>
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Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
>unkitty# cvsup /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile
>Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?
>
>When I configured the network. I configured for DHCP and then filled
in the
>machine name unkitty as host and filled in a fictitous ralphfdewitt.org as
This can cause problems with a few things if
FBSD is unable to resolve a name. Good news:
you can fake it out.
Put this in /etc/hosts:
the.ip.of.unkitty unkitty.ralphfdewitt.org
unkitty
And make sure that /etc/resolv.conf is configured
to check the hosts file prior to checking the name
service....
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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