[H-GEN] Problem with /etc/hosts on FreeBSD 5.1.???

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Tuesday 12 August 2003 08:04 pm, s4021760 at student.uq.edu.au wrote:
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> Hi,
>   I just loaded freeBSD 5.1 and ran into some trouble....I have edited
> the /etc/hosts file to show the required name....but when I boot up the
> system hangs and gives the message "...My unspecified name is
> BLAA......Sleeping for retry" It comes out of this loop if I hit ^C. I have
> shutoff the name server thinking that it may be trying to assign a new IP
> to the system. Also ifconfig is showing the required setting to be correct
> for the interface. What am I doing wrong....I am using a 3COM n/w card. I
> would be grateful for any help.

You did leave the entry for localhost untouched, didn't you?

<snip>
# /etc/hosts
#
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost
#
</snip>



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