From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 19: 3:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odo.cc.flinders.edu.au (odo.cc.flinders.edu.au [129.96.252.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DFE37B401 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:02:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (IDENT:bra@[129.96.134.148]) by odo.cc.flinders.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f0G32pp01879 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:32:51 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Whereis network address? Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:24:51 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01011613323300.22799@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I made a silly mistake when installing FreeBSD 4.2 When confronted with the network setup, I assumed 'host' was the main computer in my small crossover network - WRONG! The result was that I had two computers, both with the same name and address! OK, so I visited every file I could find in /etc and inserted the CORRECT names and addresses. However, though I can now ping 1 from 2, 2 still retains the wrong name (see prompt) and still refuses to be pinged by 1, saying that 1 is using its address! Clearly that second unit has its name and address stored somewhere where I am not looking - but WHERE, please? -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message