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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 22:24:36 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Jonathan Vaughan <jonathan@turnip.org.uk>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:38:08AM +0100, Jonathan Vaughan wrote:
> 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"

This is not the correct way. This is a Bad Idea. Don't give the
loopback any address but 127.0.0.1.

> and a hosts file like
> 
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.turnip.org.uk localhost
> 10.0.0.1                mashed.turnip.org.uk mashed

This is fine, but remember that 'hosts' has to appear in /etc/host.conf
for the /etc/hosts file to be referenced.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.com


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