Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:59 +0200, Peter Czanik wrote:
> Hello,
> I wanted to install the latest factory. When I tried to add an
> additional install source (for factory-extra), I entered, as usual, the
> IP address of the server under Server Name. When used OK, I got the
> following message:
> "A valid domain name consists of components separated by dots. Each
> component contains letters, digits, and hyphens. A hypen may nt start or
> end a component and the last component may not begin with a digit." And
> the IP address is not accepted. What is supposed to be done by someone
> without a DNS server for a 192.168.X.X network? This was in the HTTP
> dialog box, typing in the URL works fine...
> Bye,
> CzP

Adding the entry to /etc/hosts will work.

Ken Schneider

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