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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