From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 17:02:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C98E16A4DB for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:02:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3588743D31 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:02:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@magnesium.net) Received: by toxic.magnesium.net (Postfix, from userid 1070) id 13BF1DA838; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:02:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:02:09 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Steve Bertrand Message-ID: <20040707170209.GA89192@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <20040707001119.GA9230@toxic.magnesium.net> <3174.209.167.16.15.1089207132.squirrel@209.167.16.15> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3174.209.167.16.15.1089207132.squirrel@209.167.16.15> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. (Alternate) Public service Unix since 1986. cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Sendmail hand upon boot and restart X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:02:09 -0000 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. > > -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | kline@magnesium.net Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant