From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 16:17:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA7537B8BD for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:17:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13KUEW-0000Gw-00; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:17:00 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13KUET-0005br-00; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:16:57 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:16:56 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Robert L. Bostic" 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> References: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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