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From: "Mark Wright" <mwright@pro-ns.net>
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Subject: Re: Can't do an ftp install
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:53:47 -0600
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Yes, NAT and a firewall.  However, other machines pulling their ip from the
dhcp server - both an apple and nt laptop - can ftp to ftp.freebsd.org.
They can also ping the box on which I'm installing.  I tried using the fixit
disk, and I have the same problem - ftp hangs when I "ftp ftp.freebsd.org".
It seems to be failing in the name lookup.  The /etc/resolv.conf file
(cat'ed from the fixit prompt, after selecting media in the custom
installation and having it time out looking for ftp.freebsd.org) looks like:

search
nameserver x.y.z.w1
nameserver x.y.z.w2

The empty search line looks like trouble.  Is that my problem (and why?  I
entered a domain name and hostname when in 'select media')?  Or is that just
because the select media step aborted because it failed.

mark.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hector" <zips@zips.net>
To: "Mark Wright" <mwright@pro-ns.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Can't do an ftp install


>
>
> Are you using nat ? firewall ? ... how do you
> connect to the intenet ?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Mark Wright wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to do an FTP install of 4.2-release.  I get past the DHCP
> > configurations, and then it hangs on "looking up host ftp.freebsd.org."
I
> > can ping the (soon-to-be) FreeBSD box that I'm installing on (using the
IP
> > information retrieved from the DHCP server).  I can also ftp to
> > ftp.freebsd.org from another client (winnt) on the same LAN segment as
the
> > (potential) FreeBSD box.  But the FreeBSD box-to-be can't seem to see
> > ftp.freebsd.org (or ftp2.freebsd.org or ftp5.freebsd.org).
> >
> > Any ideas what's going on?  The NIC must be working, since I can get the
> > client address from the DHCP server.  The router is working fine, since
I
> > can ftp to ftp.freebsd.org from other clients on the same switch.  I'm
> > stumped.
> >
> > Mark
> > ---
> > Mark Wright
> > mwright@pro-ns.net
> >
> >
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