Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:41:57 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles using cvsup Message-ID: <19991112204157.B638@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911121949260.18092-100000@sun33> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911121949260.18092-100000@sun33>
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Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> Tried to run cvsup ports-supfile
> Got:Cannot get IP address of my own host - is its hostname correct?
> (my ISP use dynamic IP-adresses if it does care)
> Question:What should I do futher?
This might work:
# echo $(hostname) 127.0.0.1 >> /etc/hosts
What is your hostname set to? Since you have dynamic IP, you probably
just made up a hostname. If you did, add that to /etc/hosts with the IP
address 127.0.0.1 (as the above command would).
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