Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:55:59 -0800 From: Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathan Horne <sharazjek@gmail.com> Subject: Re: what is going on?? Message-ID: <200603241655.59719.satyam@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <20060325004729.GA31106@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <b2195ee20603240810u1946af93i334aee2ced74cc0c@mail.gmail.com> <20060325004729.GA31106@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Friday 24 March 2006 16:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:10:04AM -0600, 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?? > > Your DNS server is not, in fact, working. > > Kris > FWIW, I had a similar problem not too long ago. Turned out I had a typo in my dns server address. Lot of trouble, easy fix.
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