Re: "Cannot get IP address of my own host" message

From: Anthropos (Anthropos_at_SWBell.net)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:37:00 GMT

"John Prather" <jprather@uci.edu> wrote in message
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Anthropos wrote:
> "Anthropos" <Anthropos@SWBell.net> wrote in message
> news:HF10e.469$oy3.93@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
> When I run cvsup, I get the following message:
>
> "Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?"
>
> Typing the 'hostname' command yields the correct hostname.
>
> The NIC is identified as 'xl0'.
>
> rc.conf contains the line:
>
> ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" <-- Correction
>
> Typing the 'ifconfig' command yields a correct 192.168.x.y IP address for
> 'xl0'.
>
> What am I missing?...

Does the hostname returned by `hostname` resolve to an IP address?

Perhaps it should be in your /etc/hosts ?

----- Response -----

Since I running DHCP on my LAN, how do I specify a dynamic address in
/etc/hosts? All the examples I've found use static addresses.

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