Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:19:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ash Yadav <ash@fxsing.ml.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Ash Yadav <ash@tekkie.sg.ml.com> Subject: Re: Need help with some FreeBSD problems. Message-ID: <19980413131916.G28708@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <9804130252.AA03094@rachel.fxsing.ml.com>; from Ash Yadav on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:52:41AM %2B0800 References: <9804130252.AA03094@rachel.fxsing.ml.com>
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On Mon, 13 April 1998 at 10:52:41 +0800, Ash Yadav wrote:
> Folks,
> Just booted up my freebsd machine after 2 weeks and seem to be noticing a few problems.
> The freebsd box is setup as a gateway for my HAN ( Home Area Network ). The boxes are
> coneected via a D-Link hub. I had all the components working a few weeks and now that
> I have'nt used it for a while these gremilins have crept in.
Please try to keep your lines to < 80 characters. A lot of people
can't read the message properly otherwise. I've reformatted the rest.
> 1) telnetting from my win95 box to freebsd is extremely slow. It
> takes abt 5 minutes
Not one minute?
> to come back with a login promt.
And then things work normally? This sounds like reverse mapping
problems for your windows box. How have you set up your local DNS?
> When I try to ping the machine etc. everything looks ok.
That figures.
> 2) On startup it hangs while trying to start sendmail. I have to Ctrl-C to get the
> bootup to go on.
This usually means that sendmail has failed on a DNS lookup.
> A ps after bootup doesnot show sendmail running.
That's right, you killed it with the ^C.
> Trying to startup sendmail from the commandline show the process
> with a "S" status with ps.
>From the man page:
S Marks a process that is sleeping for less than about 20
seconds.
Nothing wrong with that in itself. Is it working?
> 3) PPP seems to dialout to my isp. even when no one is using it. At first I thought it
> was sendmail. But now that sendmail is not working it still does the samething.
It's probably DNS :-)
> 4) Cannot mount the freebsd box via samba. The requests time out.
If I were you, I'd wait until I fix the DNS problems before attacking
this one. It might go away by itself.
> The host files on both hosts has entries for both hosts. Any help on
> how to resolve these problems is appreciated .. TIA
Ah. You're not using DNS. What do you have in your /etc/resolv.conf?
I don't recommend using /etc/hosts, even for small networks like
yours. The only way to access the network is to talk to a remote name
server, which means increased network traffic, including increased
probability of autodial. If you have "The Complete FreeBSD", second
edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm), check chapter
25. It's simpler than most people think.
Greg
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