Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:56:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu> Subject: Re: problem with cvsup Message-ID: <XFMail.010802075601.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <3B683A56.9580DAD1@i-clue.de>
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On 01-Aug-01 Christoph Sold wrote: > > > Russell Francis wrote: >> >> I am trying to update my source tree from 4.2-Release to 4.x-Stable. When >> I start cvsup it gives the following error message. >> >> Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? >> >> My network connection works great. Does anyone know why this is happening >> and or how to fix it? > > It seems your reverse name mapping is not set up correctly. CVSup needs > both forward and reverse name mapping to work. WWW traffic needs only > forward mapping. Complain at your system administrator or network > provider. You can set this yourself if you have: 1. ifconfig -a --> IP-adress of your interface. 2. nslookup IP-adress-from-above --> hostname as letters 3. hostname hostname-as-letter-from above --> sets an OK hostname 4. Now cvsup will work! > > HTH > -Christoph Sold > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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