From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 0:14:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4F137B416 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:14:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fAQ8E4R43637; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:14:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Chris Peterson" , Subject: RE: FTP install silently fails and then installer has DNS resolution problems? Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:14:04 -0800 Message-ID: <001901c17652$4fce4ac0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <000b01c1760b$7a8be1b0$a586fa18@chris> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Peterson >Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 3:47 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: FTP install silently fails and then installer has DNS >resolution problems? > > >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 This is a symptom of a broken network connection. When I've dealt with this in the past the problem has either been bad hardware, (the NIC, the driver, the hub, etc.) or a circuit/line problem. What network adapter do you have in your machine? One thing you might try is FTPing the ISO file and burning a CD and doing a CD installation. People have also done floppy installations although this is time consuming. If you go the floppy route, do a minimal installation and then once the system is booted off the harddisk, you can FTP the tarballs down and then selectively install features. >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. > When you ifconfig the netmask it jars loose the network driver and things start working again. (sometimes) What is the NIC? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message