Date: 05 Mar 2002 19:05:18 -0700 From: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net> To: Vijai Gandikota <vijai_gandikota@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hostid Question Message-ID: <1015380318.14282.225.camel@lohr> In-Reply-To: <20020305221955.24747.qmail@web9802.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020305221955.24747.qmail@web9802.mail.yahoo.com>
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hostid is broken in FreeBSD (it isn't, apparently, automatically set...and I could only find one bug report about it: kern/21132. You might try using the lmutil program from http://www.globetrotter.com/lmgrd.htm". They have Linux, BSDI, and FreeBSD (3.4) versions of lmutil. At the time I wrote this, it *appeared* as if Globetrotter Software was having DNS problems (I got an internal IP address for their FTP server - ftp.globes.com). The IP address you want is 192.156.198.196 On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 15:19, Vijai Gandikota wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a question regarding the hostid of a machine > running FreeBSD. Entering the following command at > command line > > % sysctl kern.hostid > > gives me > > kern.hostid: 0 > > I noticed in a couple of emails sent by other people > using FreeBSD (with the output of various system > values including hostid) that their hostid's also said > 0. > Is this normal? On UNIX normally when I enter the > command > % hostid > > I get a 8 letter alphanumeric value like 23a4076b. > > My next question is do I need to change the hostid > from 0 to any other value? > > If anyone has any suggestions in the regard please let > me know. > Thank you > Vijai > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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