Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 04:13:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: httpd will not start Message-ID: <20000201041336.I24609@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <00013118220001.00315@chip.homenet>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 06:09:05PM -0800 References: <38953142.7F55C7DB@home.net> <00013118220001.00315@chip.homenet>
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* Chip <chip@wiegand.org> [000201 04:07] wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Craig Burgess wrote:
> > A couple thoughts:
> >
> > 2.) Check out /var/log/httpd-error.log for clues...
> The error log is full of this line -
> [Mon Jan 31 17:37:11 2000] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("chip.homenet")
> This machine I am running this on is called chip and my homenetwork is called
> homenet, thus chip.homenet
> My guess is I will need to change this?
Yes, otherwise apache won't start it seems, you _could_ hack /etc/hosts
and add it there, however then apache will tell connecting clients
to use "chip.homenet" as the server address.
Anyone without an identical /etc/hosts entry will then try to
download additional stuff from the non-existant hostname "chip.homenet"
and fail because of DNS.
If you want to have internal hostnames you ought to run named/bind
and provide your own name service. FreeBSD comes bundled with named
but you'll probably want to get DNS/bind from ORA and check out
http://www.isc.org/ for docs on named.
-Alfred
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