From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 3:48:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC2A3DB3 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 03:48:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA03879; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 04:13:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 04:13:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Chip Cc: Craig Burgess , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: httpd will not start Message-ID: <20000201041336.I24609@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <38953142.7F55C7DB@home.net> <00013118220001.00315@chip.homenet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00013118220001.00315@chip.homenet>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 06:09:05PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Chip [000201 04:07] wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Craig Burgess wrote: > > A couple thoughts: > > > > 2.) Check out /var/log/httpd-error.log for clues... > The error log is full of this line - > [Mon Jan 31 17:37:11 2000] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("chip.homenet") > This machine I am running this on is called chip and my homenetwork is called > homenet, thus chip.homenet > My guess is I will need to change this? Yes, otherwise apache won't start it seems, you _could_ hack /etc/hosts and add it there, however then apache will tell connecting clients to use "chip.homenet" as the server address. Anyone without an identical /etc/hosts entry will then try to download additional stuff from the non-existant hostname "chip.homenet" and fail because of DNS. If you want to have internal hostnames you ought to run named/bind and provide your own name service. FreeBSD comes bundled with named but you'll probably want to get DNS/bind from ORA and check out http://www.isc.org/ for docs on named. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message