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From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: error message during boot
Date: 8 Jul 1994 18:43:26 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Knowledge Network
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Bill Paul (wpaul@panix.com) wrote:
: In /etc/hosts, you must have a line that says:
: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain
: Errors that will result if you don't do this: ifconfig will not be
: able to figure out what IP address goes with the name 'localhost'
: and you'll get 'localhost: bad value.'
Ok, should I also have my hostname and domain?
Also my machine is not on any network, however, I will be getting a uucp
connection from work. Would my domain need to be changed or does this
stuff have nothing to do with uucp?
: In /etc/netstart, you must do:
: ifconfig lo0 localhost
: route add localhost <-- could well be optional, but doesn't hurt
Yeah, I found that line commented out but it looked a bit different:
rout add $hostname localhost
: Errors that will result if you don't do this: the loopback device will
: not be properly configured and/or you will have no route to it. The
: result is that programs expecting to have networking enabled (including
: syslog and friends) will get horribly confused.
I see...
: *AND*, if you're not going to be directly connected to a network, you
: should change /etc/host.conf to say:
: hosts
: bind
: It's set up the other way around by default. I don't like it that
: way myself.
done.
: Lastly, be very careful with /etc/hosts.equiv. If you add a hostname
: to it, say 'otherhost.domain,' then root on otherhost.domain will
: be able to rsh/rlogin to your machine without a password.
But should my hostname be in there?
: Once you have everything set correctly, you should be able to type
: 'telnet localhost' and establish a connection to yourself. If you
: get an error such as 'localhost: unknown host' or 'network unreachable'
: then you still have work to do.
Oh, should I have been replacing 'localhost' with my hostname?
Btw, I just successfully telnetted to localhost and logged in!
Thanks a bunch!
Sherman
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