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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.