Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:16:22 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is going on?? Message-ID: <4424C416.7020109@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200603250303.k2P332hd064778@zeus.int.dfwlp.com> References: <200603250303.k2P332hd064778@zeus.int.dfwlp.com>
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Jonathan Horne wrote: >Thanks for the replies everyone. > >It turned out to be partially ipv6, partially the ipfw on my pfsense >firewall. Ultimately, the hangup was in sendmail, unable to start. Ipv6 >messages in the logevel 20 maillogs. > >However, during all my troubles, I was always able to resolve >ftp.freebsd.org (I don't think I mentioned that before), as well as I could >ping it and any number of other hosts as I scratched my head for 3 hours. > >Ultimately, I ended up compiling a new kernel anyway to enable SMP, and I >just removed the ipv6 support while I was there. That and disabling the >userlan ftp-proxy application on my firewall, I was up and running this >morning within a few hours of compiling. > >So long fedora! > >:D > >jonathan > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Schuele >Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:50 PM >To: Jonathan Horne >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: what is going on?? > >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?? >> >> > >My .02 cents: >Double check your name resolution functionality. Also, seems I had >trouble once upon a time with IPV6 causing similar issues as well. But >that was quite some time ago. > > > >>thanks >>jonathan >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> >> >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > Could have just turned the firewall off I would think in /etc/rc.conf. Don't see why recompiling a kernel without ipv6 support was necessary as that shouldn't have been preventing network connections at all. Good luck with FreeBSD :). -Garrett
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