Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:17:45 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: "RawDevelopment" <admin@rawdev.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unqualified host name Message-ID: <20070212181745.4251f70c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <016501c74ef1$f34022a0$0201a8c0@weeman> References: <016501c74ef1$f34022a0$0201a8c0@weeman>
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In response to "RawDevelopment" <admin@rawdev.co.nz>: > Hi there :-) > I just installed FreeBSD 6.2 and during the setup process I setup my > network card. Now I did this twice, first time when setting up my card > I gave the hostname 'mylan' thinking I could put almost anything in > there - now when the machine booted just after starting sshd I get Format recovered. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html > > My unqualified host name (mylan) unknown; sleeping for retry. > > and this would make the system wait for about 2-3 minutes as it tried > to more times. > > So I reinstalled and this time set the hostname to localhost.... same > thing happens.. > > not sure what is should be to get rid of this error. It should be an actual fully-qualified hostname that is in DNS: http://foldoc.org/index.cgi?query=fqdn&action=Search If you don't have access to DNS to set your hostname properly, you can use a garbage name and add it to /etc/hosts and the delays will go away. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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