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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.

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Ben Smithurst                 / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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