From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 06:34:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A77916A538 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:34:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bobmc@bobmc.net) Received: from smtp-out.fcibroadband.com (smtp-out.fcibroadband.com [64.119.104.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C7E13C45A for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:34:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bobmc@bobmc.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-in1.fcibroadband.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6B71B22F4 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:34:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp-out1 ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-out1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with SMTP id 21255-09 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:34:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host6614614327.dsl.res.tor.fcibroadband.com [66.146.143.39]) by smtp-out.fcibroadband.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B0C1B1738 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:34:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45AC719A.1020809@bobmc.net> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:32:58 -0500 From: Bob McIsaac User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: FreeBSD challenged by Internet 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: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:34:29 -0000 Hi: This is not exactly a question rather it is wrapup for a series of questions. I had a tricky, confusing problem getting FreeBSD on the net but I was able to solve it with help from this list.. Ian Smith in particular. The DHCP lease from my ISP set the nameserver address as being 192.168.1.254, the IP of some box which connects me to to net. Correct me if wrong, but whois would not reveal a nameserver IP in this form for a net host. Linux accepted this but FreeBSD-6.1 had 10 second delays in TCP connects for mail and web pages. This does not imply a problem with BSD. It probably implies that Linux is more tolerant of loosely configured web services. But in the world of security it's "casual configuration considered harmful". I spent many hours reading and testing before hitting on a solution in dhclient.conf. I think this would be discouraging for most FreeBSD newbies. But making setup a no-brainer does not seem possible. It is difficult to provide a quality, standards-compliant OS unless all net-citizens share that focus on quality. Just my 2cents. Cheers, -Bob-