troubleshooting network settings

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

On 30/05/2006, at 10:29 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>>> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>> Running that command returns this:
>> ifconfig: -inet: bad value
>
>
> Bah!  I'm on the road too much lately.  No "dash"
> before "inet" ...

here's the output

bsd-box# ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
bsd-box# ifconfig -a
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
  options=8<VLAN_MTU>
  inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:fe08:e02a%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
  inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
  ether 00:e0:4c:08:e0:2a
  media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
  status: active
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
  inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00
  inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
  inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
bsd-box# apachectl graceful
httpd not running, trying to start
bsd-box# tail -f /var/log/httpd-error.log
[Tue May 30 22:33:13 2006] [alert] (EAI 8)hostname nor servname 
provided, or not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of 
"bsd-box."
Configuration Failed
[Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of 
entropy
[Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA 
private keys (512/1024 bits)
[Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH 
parameters (512/1024 bits)
[Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured 
[hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers 
for SSL
[Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Server: Apache/2.2.2, 
Interface:mod_ssl/2.2.2, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1
[Tue May 30 22:43:51 2006] [alert] (EAI 8)hostname nor servname 
provided, or not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of 
"bsd-box."
Configuration Failed