Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:38:08 +0100 From: Jonathan Vaughan <jonathan@turnip.org.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup Message-ID: <20000804003808.A1307@mashed.turnip.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000804001656.C3360@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:56AM %2B0100 References: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> <20000804001656.C3360@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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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 -- 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
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