From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 4 1: 1: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.svr.pol.co.uk (mail6.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941C937B7A1 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 01:00:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonathan@turnip.org.uk) Received: from modem-6.elessar.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.185.6] helo=mashed.turnip.org.uk) by mail6.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 13KcPV-00020j-00; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:00:53 +0100 Received: from jonathan by mashed.turnip.org.uk with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13KcPg-00005x-00; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:01:04 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:01:03 +0100 From: Jonathan Vaughan To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup Message-ID: <20000804090103.A333@mashed.turnip.org.uk> References: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> <20000804001656.C3360@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000804003808.A1307@mashed.turnip.org.uk> <20000803222436.B66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000803222436.B66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:24:36PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:24:36PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:38:08AM +0100, Jonathan Vaughan wrote: > > 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. That just being an alias for the loopbaak device. I also have ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1". Trawling through the mailing list archives, this was advised as what should be done. in linux I would set up a dummy interface for the IP address. -- Jonathan Vaughan jonathan@turnip.org.uk PGP Key ID: 0x0AF58107 http://home.clara.net/turnip/pgp.txt | jon@pgpkey.turnip.org.uk | keyservers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message