Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:16:56 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: "Robert L. Bostic" <robert42@swbell.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup Message-ID: <20000804001656.C3360@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> References: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian>
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Robert L. Bostic wrote: > I am attempting to cvsup over a dial-up connection. I get the following error > message: >> Praetorian# cvsup stable-supfile >> Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? > I know I can't be the first to encounter this problem. How can I correct this? Well, I don't know how the message could be made any clearer... You need an entry for your hostname (as reported by `hostname`) in /etc/hosts or in DNS, e.g. 127.0.0.1 my.hostname.example.com localhost or something. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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