Hostname self-lookup failed on OpenBSD 2.9

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 1:20 am

Had an eggdrop configured in slackware 8.0, worked great.
Changed system to openBSD 2.9 and can't get it starting:
* Hostname self-lookup failed.

Have tried setting my-ip, my-hostname and disabling loadmodule dns, no change...

Would really like getting the bot to work again.

Btw, the computer is now also a firewall, it wasn't when running slackware 8.0, if that changes anything.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 10:00 am

Can the machine do any lookups from the shell prompt like:-

$ nslookup http://www.egghelp.org.

If it fails than a) check /etc/resolv.conf and b) check ur firewall is not blocking DNS queries

cheers
AjK

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 3:12 pm

It can do DNS lookups...

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 4:37 pm

Are either of the "my-ip" or "my-hostname" settings commented out?

You may have set them to values, but forgotten to uncomment them (remove the # from the begining of the line)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 2:06 am

No, I removed those

It's bugging me that you see no difference what so ever if I set my-ip or my-hostname...

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 11:32 am

Post retracted

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Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 3:49 pm

don't set my-hostname, just set my-ip

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 8:27 pm

Have tried all of the 4 different combinations, no change in any case...