From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 21: 0:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C00137B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 21:00:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4T40Ei10932; Mon, 28 May 2001 23:00:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:00:14 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jason Halbert Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MySQL 3.23.28 Message-ID: <20010528230014.A8418@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 28), Jason Halbert said: > Hi all: > > I'm having a problem with adding the port mysql-server-3.23.38.tgz on > 4.3-STABLE. > I get the following error: > > su-2.04# pkg_add mysql-server-3.23.38.tgz > Sorry, the host 'jason-n3xt' could not be looked up. > Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. > > The only thing I can think of is it resolves "jason-n3xt.org" then > tries to reverse lookup the IP which does not return "jason-n3xt.org". That's probably the case. Mysql requires hostnames to match forward and reverse for security purposes. Temporarily configure your system to have a hostname of crtntx1-ar3-088-078.crtntx1.dsl.gtei.net, then switch it back when you're done installing. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message