From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 10:38:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02476 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02463 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA02610 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:37:34 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id TAA05606 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:36:32 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Alpha.7/keltia-uucp-2.9) id TAA25462; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:02:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608161702.TAA25462@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:02:32 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers' list) Subject: Re: Problem in 2.1.5 install and loopback interface. In-Reply-To: <199608161444.KAA01427@lakes.water.net>; from Thomas David Rivers on Aug 16, 1996 10:44:01 -0400 References: <199608161444.KAA01427@lakes.water.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.39 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Thomas David Rivers: > Well - if your using a nameserver, and the machine booting happens > to *be* the nameserver, this won't work. Since named isn't > up yet (how could it be before the interfaces are configured?), > you can't resolve the name "localhost" > > This should probably change to: > > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" You should use "hosts, bind" in /etc/host.conf and populate /etc/hosts with some important values like localhost and your primary interfaces. That way, you don't need a DNS for booting. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #17: Fri Aug 2 20:40:17 MET DST 1996