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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
> 
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