proftpd redhat getaddrinfo

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November 4th, 2003, 07:30 PM

the-griff

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proftpd redhat getaddrinfo

Hello
I am trying to run proftpd on a redhat server but all i get are errors:

[root@ellis01 etc]# proftpd -c /etc/proftpd.conf
- getaddrinfo 'ellis01' error: Name or service not known
- error: unable to determine IP address of 'ellis01'
- getaddrinfo 'ellis01' error: Name or service not known
- error: unable to determine IP address of 'ellis01'

where ellis01 is the hostname
Please help!

January 26th, 2004, 07:33 AM

VladTepes

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I would suggest the following:

add the ip-addr to /etc/hosts with your host name...

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