Subject: Re: bad myname/hostname values
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: era eriksson <reriksso@cc.helsinki.fi>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/12/1997 13:38:07
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:25:45 +0100,
Johan Claesson <Johan.Claesson@uab.ericsson.se> wrote:
 > Michael Reeh wrote:
 >> i have ever successfully booted into NetBSD, right after it says "Starting
 >> networks" or whatever, i get a line like:
 >> netbsd.anarchy-x.com: bad value

I kept getting the same one and traced it into /etc/netstart enough to
be able to change it so it gives a different error message ... :-)

 > You must have the same entries in both /etc/hosts and /etc/myname like
 > /etc/myname
 > netbsd.anarchy-x.com

I was under the impression that by convention you would only have the
actual hostname, not the domain name here? The domain goes in
/etc/defaultdomain, right? 

What if you're only networked by means of dynamic-IP PPP? Then you
can't put any numbers in /etc/hosts, other than 127.0.0.1, or can you?
(Why do I see 127.0.0.0 here, doesn't that mean the entire netblock?)

 > /etc/hosts
 > 127.0.0.0	localhost	localhost.anarcht-x.com
 > 100.244.7.17	netbsd		netbsd.anarchy-x.com

Thanks for this tip, though.

Cluelessly,

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