From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 4 11:37:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C6237B67C for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:37:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15382; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:37:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA24503; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008041837.LAA24503@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: robert42@swbell.net Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup In-Reply-To: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> References: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian>, Robert L. Bostic wrote: > I am attempting to cvsup over a dial-up connection. I get the > following error message: > > > Praetorian# cvsup stable-supfile Cannot get IP address of my own > > host -- is its hostname correct? > > I know I can't be the first to encounter this problem. How can I > correct this? It means that the hostname which you gave your system (i.e., the output of the "hostname" command) doesn't have a valid DNS entry. You can find more information in the CVSup FAQ, which is at . See question 30 (currently it's 30, anyway) "The CVSup client dies with a segmentation violation when I try to use the GUI." (Yes, I know the question doesn't sound like it applies, but it's basically the same problem.) One easy way to work around this problem is to turn off the GUI with the "-g" option. The next release of CVSup (hopefully available before the summer is over) will try to be more tolerant of botched DNS setups. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message