From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 9: 4: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB0F14C92 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 09:04:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA38748; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:04:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <199911061704.MAA38748@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: 3.3-r install problems In-Reply-To: <382456C3.A0D6D210@home.com> from Kishan Barrett at "Nov 6, 1999 8:26:43 am" To: kishan1@home.com Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:04:01 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If your hub is flashing, that means that your card is working. The problem here is that the machine is doing exactly what it says, and failing. It cannot lookup the host. Your DNS isn't working. Check the settings, or try different servers. ==ml > hi, i am trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE via ftp on my intel > 486/33. the problem i'm having is that right after i put in all the > network info it stops at 'looking up ftp.freebsd.org'. at 1st i thought > this was a network interface card problem since i am using an ISA NE2000 > clone, however when i repeated it i saw (on the hub) that the machine > was trasmitting something. any ideas? > > thanks in advance > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message