I'm running a Dell 2350 with RedHat 9. The computer has a Broadcom 440x series ingrated NIC, which I recently found the driver for and installed it. Now I can access the internet, which is great, however, I cannot start Apache. All my other services seem to be ok, just not apache. (Apache 2.0 btw)

I keep getting the following error in my /var/log/httpd/error_log file...

[alert] (22002)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "x1-6-00-08-74-c4-9e-63"

I also used to see userName@localhost for my command prompt, but now I see userName@x1-6-00-08-74-c4-9e-63 instead.

Any idea what I screwed up???

Additional info:

/etc/hosts does contain 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

my ISP is comcast.net and I'm using dhcp.

Please help.

Thanks

not a solution, but perhaps a workaround:

I make the following assumptions (correct me if I'm wrong)

-your machine connects to your ISP directly (i.e. no NAT router)
-the IP address is assigned via DHCP - but for practical reason could be seen as static (many ISPs will always give you the same address - based on your MAC address)

Under those circumstances I would register my domain to that IP address, and put that information into /etc/hosts as well.

Like I said, not the perfect solution - but it worked for me for the past year.

msh8r - Your assumptions are correct as far a the NAT, but I'm not sure about the quasi static IP based on the MAC address.

I'm not sure I'm following you. Do you mean go and but a domain (mydomain.com) and have it point to 127.0.0.1 then add that entry to my /etc/hosts ?

I guess I don't understand how that would help Apache start??? , plus I'd rather not spend the $10, too cheap.

Any other ideas?

the problem with apache not starting seems to be that it can't resolve your machine's name in DNS.
If you don't want to register a domain (Why are you then running a webserver? Just for local access?) I would take note of the IP address that your ISP assigns you via DHCP, and put an entry for it in /etc/hosts , like:
aa.bb.cc.dd mywebserver myserver.localdomain

This should make apache happy.

Of course, if your ISP changes that IP address you have to update /etc/hosts as well - perhaps a nice exercise for a little cron job:

-see what our IP address is ==> modify /etc/hosts

Yep, pretty much using this box as my development server, so I don't need to register a domain name, just run some things like apache, mysql, postgre, php, perl and the like.

I guess I don't understand why http://localhost would not be suffiecient to start apache???

apache should run with http://localhost - no idea what causes the error message "Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "x1-6-00-08-74-c4-9e-63"

Obviously it is trying to resolve your hostname (x1-6-00-08-74-c4-9e-63 as assigned by your ISP) to an IP address and fails. Have you posted this to the apache mailing list? Perhaps someone there has an idea how to fix it.

Well, I thought I'd post a reply with my solution.

I simply downloaded the latest apache distribution and installed it. Seems to work now.

Thanks for your help.