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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: bootp can't find it's ip Date: 29 Jul 1996 09:15:29 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4thvfh$41v@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4t68a1$p81@client2.news.psi.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E gleduc@mktdev.com (Gene LeDuc) wrote: > I'm trying to set up a bootp server on bsdi. I loaded the bootptab > file with address, names, etc., but when I started the bootpd it > said it couldn't find it's own ip address. The machine seems to > know it's ip address (config_netstart, ifconfig...) in other > circumstances. Anyone know where bootpd is looking for it's > address? It apparently cannot gethostbyname() itself (or gethostbyaddr() its own primary interface). Make sure your DNS lookups work in both directions: j@ida 521% nslookup ida Server: ida.interface-business.de Address: 0.0.0.0 Name: ida.interface-business.de Address: 193.101.57.203 j@ida 522% nslookup 193.101.57.203 Server: ida.interface-business.de Address: 0.0.0.0 Name: ida.interface-business.de Address: 193.101.57.203 -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j