From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 9 13:30:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D398C37B41C for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:30:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (24-168-25-8.nyc.rr.com [24.168.25.8]) by nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id fB9LTlrx002919; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:29:52 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011209162340.00c330d8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 16:29:26 -0500 To: joe , "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org" From: Scott Subject: Re: error ethostbyname In-Reply-To: <3C13D6DF.B6D0313@business-aid.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 13:25 2001/12/09 -0800, joe wrote: >hi again i put apache in my computer on my freebsd computer and when i >went to un it it game me nothing ... so when i went to check the >http-error.log file it said >9)(ALERT) mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname >("example.ab.hsia.telus.net") >so what should or was sappose to do to not have this happen! >thanx joe In your /etc/hosts file, you'll have to add your machine's IP address. At present, it probably has something like 127.0.0.1 localhost So under that add, if, for example, your machine's ipaddress is 192.168.100.1 and is called machine.localdomain 192.168.100.1 machine.localdomain HTH Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message