Re: [tlug] Trying FreeBSD

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 01:15:16AM +0900, Gavin wrote:
> Help,
> 
> I'm playing with FreeBSD 4.5 and I'm trying to update the ports packages, 
> when I enter the command cvsup supfile, I get a reply saying "Cannot get IP 
> address of my own host..is its host name correct? (yes it is) but if the 
> problem is on my BSD box where do I need to go and check
> 
> My gateway box (Mandrake 8.0 ) MSEC is set to level 4, I entered the bsd box 
> in host allow on my gateway,  re-entered the command cvsup supfile on BSD box 
> and got the same reply again...what am I missing.. help
> 

do the following:
ping `hostname`

if this fails you probably either need to fix your hostname
hostname -s <hostname> 

or you need a entry in /etc/hosts


--Matt