Ah. The message means that the gethostbyname() call is failing, for
your own host.  Do you have an entry for yourself in /etc/hosts?

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Stefan Sichler wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Stefan Sichler wrote:
> >
> >> Recently I had my first try on using "SUP"...
> >> I configured the supfile to use sup.de.netbsd.org,
> >> 
> >> when calling sup, it says:
> >> 
> >>   SUP 8.26 (4.3 BSD) for file supfile at Feb  2 01:35:54
> >>   SUP: Can't find my host entry
> >> 
> >> What do I have to do?
> >
> >Create a file /etc/supfiles/coll.host, with only
> >one entry, `sup.de.netbsd.org'.
> 
> Unfortunately, this makes no difference.