From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 3 1:34:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9685637B401 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 01:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g538YIp87712 ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:34:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id KAA23093 ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:34:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:34:17 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Muhannad Asfour Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird Problem with FreeBSD Server/Workstation Message-ID: <20020603103417.A21712@lpt.ens.fr> References: <1022996515.31146.5.camel@bsdbox.tk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1022996515.31146.5.camel@bsdbox.tk>; from muhannad07@cogeco.ca on Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 01:41:55AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Muhannad Asfour said on Jun 2, 2002 at 01:41:55: > I setup a brand new machine (webserver) with FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and > it's a headless box now. When I try to ssh to it or even ftp from my > FreeBSD workstation, it doesn't go past me entering the > username/password, then the ssh session just freezes. Is there anything relevant in /var/log/messages? Are your DNS, /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/hosts configured correctly? Sometimes sessions can hang if the hostname of the machine you're connecting from can't be resolved. > the machine (ftp, ssh, http, telnet, etc.). I've tried searching > through mailing list postings ( http://groups.google.com ) and asking in > many different FreeBSD-related IRC channels and have had no luck. Have you tried asking on freebsd-questions? That's the relevant mailing list for questions. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message