From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 12 20:49:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24335 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 20:49:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24326 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 20:49:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23528; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:19:16 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA29422; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:19:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980413131916.G28708@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:19:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ash Yadav , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Ash Yadav Subject: Re: Need help with some FreeBSD problems. References: <9804130252.AA03094@rachel.fxsing.ml.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91i In-Reply-To: <9804130252.AA03094@rachel.fxsing.ml.com>; from Ash Yadav on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:52:41AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message