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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:38:08 +0100
From: Jonathan Vaughan <jonathan@turnip.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:56AM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> 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.

I thought the correct way was to have something like

ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff"

in /etc/rc.conf

and a hosts file like

127.0.0.1               localhost.turnip.org.uk localhost
10.0.0.1                mashed.turnip.org.uk mashed

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Jonathan Vaughan
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