Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:02:09 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net> To: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail hand upon boot and restart Message-ID: <20040707170209.GA89192@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <3174.209.167.16.15.1089207132.squirrel@209.167.16.15> References: <20040707001119.GA9230@toxic.magnesium.net> <3174.209.167.16.15.1089207132.squirrel@209.167.16.15>
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:32:12AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> >
> >
> > After a year I'm finally upgrading DNS servers, and having
> > a bad time getting sendmail and dhcp to work. I may finally
> > have dhcp woking on ns1.thought.org. ping works and my
> > /var/log/maillog is filling up. But on tao.thought.org,
> > sendmail refuses to start. Can anybody help me ith this?
>
> First we need to create a baseline...Do you get any error messages, or
> does sendmail just appear to hang? Can you ping from this machine? Do you
> have a firewall setup on the box? Do you have 'sendmail_enable="YES"' in
> /etc/rc.conf?
>
> Do the following and perhaps post the output so we know what stage in the
> game you are at:
>
> # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # dig freebsd.org
> # dig @204.101.251.2 freebsd.org
>
> Every time I have had sendmail problems, it has always come back to DNS
> failures.
>
> >
> > I'm swsapping out my Linksys NIC between my old DNS server
> > and the new. Wih the 10/100 card in the old server,
> > thinks work flwlessly; in the new they don't.
> >
> > Any ideas on what I need to configure, and hw?
> >
>
I made a lot of progress since this last email.
What I'm doing is swapping my old DNS server (emachines)
for a heftier (HP Kayak). I did not have /usr/lcal/etc/dhcpd.conf
on the new HP server configured correctly. I edited, KVM'ing
between the old Emachines, and things got better: ping, for
example. But ssh still took a *long* time.
My hardware guy has swapped my DSL ethernet card about
four times. Right now, things are back to the way they
were and everything works. *This time* I've scp'd the
dhcp.conf file over to this server, tao. In about an hour
we're going to swap things back.
(Of course, without DNS, thought.org vnishes. I expect to
hear lots of angry email about couldn't-get-thru, but too
bad. My hardware pal is going home fairly soon, and I can't
do this solo.... Sooooo..)
thanks fo your help.
gary
PS: My DNS stuff seemed ok.
>
>
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