Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:33:15 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is going on?? Message-ID: <44248FCB.2030107@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <b2195ee20603240810u1946af93i334aee2ced74cc0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <b2195ee20603240810u1946af93i334aee2ced74cc0c@mail.gmail.com>
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Jonathan Horne wrote: >last night i took down my fedora sever to migrate it to freebsd 6.0. ive >done numerous tests on dev boxes in the past weeks getting ready for this >event, and they were all successful test installs. i had all my services >down and i knew what i was supposed to be doing. > >however, when i get to first boot, the machine says: > >starting sshd. > >and hangs for a few minutes. if i hit ctrl-c i see that sendmail is having >trouble starting. i have a good DNS server listed, and the format of the >/etc/hosts file is correct. > >now im having trouble getting pkg_add -r to work, everything to >ftp.freebsd.org times out. > >im in a bad situation, as the server i took down hosts all my personal email >accoutns (i had to add gmail just to even try to read the lsits). > >can someone shed some light for me here?? > >thanks >jonathan > > Have you tried pinging a machine in the outside world? It sounds like DNS/ARP isn't resolving properly, maybe or the DNS server you use is currently not working. Also, for sshd, do you have the UseDNS option enabled? It seemed to affect client side stuff (ie client connecting to a server with UseDNS enabled), but maybe it's affecting your server =\... -Garrett
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