From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 12:27:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E7E151F2 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1118.bossig.com [208.26.241.118]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:34:24 -0800 Message-ID: <38779D6E.3853295E@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 12:26:22 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joseph_b@fernandez32.freeserve.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG joseph_b@fernandez32.freeserve.co.uk wrote: > > To whom it may concern > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 3.4 January 2000 on my PC at home the problem I have relates to networking I can ping and telnet the other PC's and another Sun SPARC(it does take a long time but it does get there), but these other machines cannot see the FreeBSD machine the request just times out. > > I have not encountered this problem before and I am a complete novice of FreeBSD can you please advise. It sounds like you haven't finished the setup. You may have added the other machines to your FreeBSD /etc/hosts but haven't added the FreeBSD to the hosts files on the other systems. Kent > > Many thanks > > Joe Fernandez > 0181-730-4145 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message