On Sun 11 Oct 2015 at 13:22:37 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Oct 11, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > "Oops" conveys nothing. Which is probably why you didn't expand on it > > when replying to David Wright. > > That's exactly what I was trying to say. A next to meaningless error > message. "Couldn't find in /etc/hosts, any IP given by ifconfig: > <IP(s)>.", might be a little more useful.
Firstly, you declare the error message was meaningless but do not give the command used or the output from it. Secondly, after being asked twice you propose a made up error message to replace the one nobody is allowed to know. Somewhere along the line there is a lack of meaningful communication.
