On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My (not so) humble opinion.
> /etc/hosts is the poor man's DNS -- what name to what IP
> ::1 localhost.foo.bar localhost
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.foo.bar localhost
> ::1 gw.foo.bar gw this-box
> 192.168.10.1 gw this-box gw.foo.bar
> 192.168.10.22 that-box
>
> Actually the local box can have a lot of names, all for the same IP.
>
> Looks like your hostname goes into /etc/myname
I just popped the CD in and the installation is on now. This is what
am getting during network configuration:
System hostname? mercury
Configure the network? [Yes]
Available interfaces are: fxp0
Which one do you want to initialize? (or 'done') [fxp0]
Symbolic (host) name for fxp0? [mercury]
The media options for fxp0 are currently
media: Ethernet autoselect (qoobaseTX full-duplex)
Do you want to change the media options? [no]
IPv4 address for fxp0? (or 'none' or 'dhcp') dhcp
Issuing hostname-associated DHCP request for fxp0.
DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.11.1
DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.11.1
bound to 192.168.11.8 -- renewal in 86400 seconds
IPv6 address for fxp0? (or rtsol or none) [none]
No more interfaces to initialize.
DNS domain name? (e.g. 'bar.com') [my.domain]
DNS nameserver? (IP address or 'none') [192.168.11.1] none
Default IPv4 route? (IPv4 address, 'dhcp' or 'none') [dhcp]
Edit hosts with ed? [no]
Do you want to do any manual network configuration? [no]
After this, ifconfig on the system gives:
$ifconfig
lo: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33208
groups: lo
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:16:76:13:ad:54
groups: dhcp egress
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
status: active
inet6 fe80:216:76ff:fe13:ad54%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.11.8 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.11.255
After rebooting, the network is not up. Getting the error messages I
posted initially.
Hari
