Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:36:09 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Karl Agee <kdagee2@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem getting updates.... Message-ID: <200107150036.f6F0a9A03312@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:54:10 PDT." <20010714065410.1554.qmail@web12305.mail.yahoo.com>
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Karl, Your system must have a hostname and it must be resolvable from a remote system for cvsup to work. Are you running DHCP or do you have a static address? If it's a static, does the name resolve? Try 'host NAME' to check on forward resolution and 'host ADDRESS' to see if the reverse works. (Replace NAME with the FQDN of your host and address with the IP address of your host. If your are dialing in, PPP should assign the address. But host(1) should be able to resolve it, in any case. If this fails, check whether my address lookup works. What does 'host yahoo.com' return? It should return something like: yahoo.com has address 216.115.108.245 yahoo.com has address 216.115.108.243 yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=1) by mx2.mail.yahoo.com yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=1) by mx3.mail.yahoo.com yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=9) by mta-v18.mail.yahoo.com yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=1) by mx1.mail.yahoo.com If this fails, your /etc/resolv.conf needs to have at least one valid nameserver line in it. If that fails, you need to provide more information or contact your provider about correct registration of your host(s). R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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