From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 25 15:46:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622FB37B41A for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:46:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from chris ([24.250.134.165]) by femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011125234637.CHNY13005.femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com@chris> for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:46:37 -0800 Message-ID: <000b01c1760b$7a8be1b0$a586fa18@chris> From: "Chris Peterson" To: Subject: FTP install silently fails and then installer has DNS resolution problems? Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:47:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.4 over FTP. Unfortunately, I can never complete the install because the install step to FTP all the files fails repeatedly. The computer is behind a NAT, so I am using passive FTP and DHCP behind the NAT. After I select FTP from ftp.freebsd.org, everything seems to be working. About half way through copying the files for the / partition, the installer unexpectedly asks me to choose an FTP server again. I choose ftp.freebsd.org again, but now the installer cannot resolve any DNS names, even ftp.freebsd.org which worked a few minutes earlier. I have reproduced this problem six times out of six attempts.. If I try to configure the network settings again, I see that my netmask has changed from 255.255.255.0 to 0xffffffff. I know these are equivalent numbers, but if I change it back to 255.255.255.0, sometimes the DNS resolution will work again, but usually not. Also, when I try to choose one of the FTP mirrors (such as ftp4.freebsd.org) as my install media, I get errors that the installer cannot log into ftp4.freebsd.org. thanks for your help, chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message