From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 30 21:18:02 2005 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 B7EAF16A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:18:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BF143D2F for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:18:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAA660E4; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:18:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63564-04; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:17:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AE960DB; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:17:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4273F608.4030609@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:18:00 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050414) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: awad@hushmail.com References: <20050430211338.7806833E43@mailserver5.hushmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050430211338.7806833E43@mailserver5.hushmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NETWORK DESTROYED!!! hieeelp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:18:02 -0000 awad@hushmail.com wrote: > Hello. > > Sorry about the captivating subject. > > My FreeBSD 5.X-STABLE configuration has been running flawlessly > for months now. Then all of a sudden, two days ago, things became > rather strange. > > 1) My reverse DNS doesn't work. > 2) Because of that, my mail and web system is down. > 3) I can't SSH/FTP into certain servers. > > My DNS server setup really is functional. So it cannot be that. > I could, however, provide the configuration files if requested. > > Nothing in /var/log contains anything useful. > And /var/named/var/log is empty. > > I just installed PF, so I thought that was the problem. > I've completely disabled PF, yet the problem is still there. > > I appreciate ALL THE HELP I CAN GET! PLEASE! > > Thanks, > -- Awad Did you do buildworld and installworld anytime in the last 2 months? What about a cvsup of the ports tree and a portupgrade? Is so - did you read both /usr/src/UPDATING & /usr/ports/UPDATING? -- Best regards, Chris Everything is revealed to he who turns over enough stones. (Including the snakes that he did not want to find.)