Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:39:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Jonathan Vaughan <jonathan@turnip.org.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008040838300.7164-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000803222436.B66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Crist J . Clark 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 is an alias address by the way. Assigning alias addresses to lo0 is perfectly ok thing to do. > > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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