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From: "Ralph F. De Witt" <ralphdewitt@charter.net>
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On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:48 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
Kevin:
Thank you for your response to my cvsup problem. Lute has also given me a 
response that has worked for me. If you do not mind I am going to put your 
solution on hold for a short time while I try to get the Linux EXT2 data 
partition mount. Right now the mounting of that partition is really needed. 
However I will comeback to your solution. I think that there may be something 
not correct with the networking. It is working but seems to be having a 
harder time than with other Linux distributions. Thanks for your help with 
this matter.
-- 
Ralph