From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 18 07:47:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA00128 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 07:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mortykai.com (mortykai.com [207.99.60.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA00123 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 07:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from morty.mortykai.com ( [207.99.60.65] ) by mail.mortykai.com (Hethmon Brothers Smtpd) ; Sun, 18 May 1997 10:47:15 est5edt Message-Id: <199704181047.1541434.7@mail.mortykai.com> Received: from localhost(127.0.0.1) by morty.mortykai.com ; 18 May 97 10:47:14 EDT4 From: "morty" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sun, 18 May 97 10:47:14 -0500 Reply-To: "morty" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.91 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: followup: freebsd install Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > i am unable to install freebsd using ftp media. the error: couldnt open > ftp connection to ftp.freebsd.org: unknown error. > i have tried several mirror sites and dotted quad urls and get the same > message. > i have a routed network from my isp. the gateway machine has a ppp > connection to the internet. i have 3 other machines that access the > internet through the gateway machine. the target machine has a 3com > 3c509 int 10 io 300. i have double checked the target machine's ip > config. dns is working. i can access the ftp host and mirror hosts from > the gateway machine. i can ping the target machine from the gateway > machine. > there is no firewall. ok i have since downloaded the bin files to the gateway machine and was able to ftp install from the gateway. now that freebsd is running i am still unable to create any socket connection to an external host. i can connect to other internal hosts. i can ping ext hosts but thats it. dns is functioning properly. needless to say i still cant ftp install any freebsd packages. i am new to freebsd and this is my first install. what am i overlooking? -morty- heard any good ones lately? send them to mailto:jokes@mortykai.com