From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 4: 5:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC714151F4 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:05:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:04:53 +0100 Received: from sun7.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.107]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 11nhDO-0001q8-00; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:56:02 +0100 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun7.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04128; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:04:38 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sun7.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:04:38 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun7 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup system problem still not solved In-Reply-To: <86g0y7ste0.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Nov 1999, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Ariel Burbaickij writes: > > > Tried to use cvsup > > Got:cannot get IP address of my own host - is its hostname correct? > > response from ifconfig tun0 > > is:flags=8051 mtu 1524 > > inet 134.176.189.46 --> 134.176.188.50 netmask 0xffffff00(ISP uses dynamic > > adresses) > > Net applications (irc,ftp,ssh,www)ru nso far without any troubles. > > I set my hostname deliberatly to Ariel.zhestianka.de(default was > > myname.mydomain.org) so i thought it is nothing so critical about it,is it > > not? > > > > Question:How can the trouble be solved? > > > > Regards, > > Ariel Burbaickij > > You have probably forgotten to change your host name somewhere. Those > net applications you mentioned (ftp, telnet, etc) are used on _your_ > host, or other hosts which resolve correctly over the PPP link. > > What happens when you do? > > % ping ariel > > and what happens when you do? > > % ping ariel.zhestianka.de > > Do both of these names resolve to 127.0.0.1, or your /etc/hosts is a > mess and needs updating? Well the problem is as I guess interim solved but in rather strange manner:as soon as I use -g -L 2 handles programm can resolve the necessary adresses so the question is:Is it an expect behaviour? As to my /etc/hosrs/ I will gladly post it to you as soon i a reach mu computer the same is true about resolving of names to adresses The results will be posted as soon as . Regards, Ariel Burbaickij > -- > Giorgos Keramidas, > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message