From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 25 00:56:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 4DCE316A423 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:56:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from satyam@sklinks.com) Received: from smtp111.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp111.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BCEA43D55 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:56:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from satyam@sklinks.com) Received: (qmail 86644 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2006 00:56:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO akasha.akasha) (varuna@sbcglobal.net@69.107.4.198 with plain) by smtp111.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2006 00:56:01 -0000 From: Joseph Vella To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:55:59 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060325004729.GA31106@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060325004729.GA31106@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603241655.59719.satyam@sklinks.com> Cc: Jonathan Horne Subject: Re: what is going on?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:56:03 -0000 On Friday 24 March 2006 16:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:10:04AM -0600, 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?? > > Your DNS server is not, in fact, working. > > Kris > FWIW, I had a similar problem not too long ago. Turned out I had a typo in my dns server address. Lot of trouble, easy fix.