From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 25 04:16:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0C616A401 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0141343D48 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:16:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k2P4GMGu010991 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:16:22 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.4.242] (nilakantha.cs.washington.edu [128.208.4.242]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k2P4GMB5027707 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:16:22 -0800 Message-ID: <4424C416.7020109@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:16:22 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Horne , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200603250303.k2P332hd064778@zeus.int.dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <200603250303.k2P332hd064778@zeus.int.dfwlp.com> X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__BAT_BOUNDARY 0, __CT 0, __CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_HTML 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __STOCK_CRUFT 0, __TAG_EXISTS_HTML 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: what is going on?? 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: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:16:26 -0000 Jonathan Horne wrote: >Thanks for the replies everyone. > >It turned out to be partially ipv6, partially the ipfw on my pfsense >firewall. Ultimately, the hangup was in sendmail, unable to start. Ipv6 >messages in the logevel 20 maillogs. > >However, during all my troubles, I was always able to resolve >ftp.freebsd.org (I don't think I mentioned that before), as well as I could >ping it and any number of other hosts as I scratched my head for 3 hours. > >Ultimately, I ended up compiling a new kernel anyway to enable SMP, and I >just removed the ipv6 support while I was there. That and disabling the >userlan ftp-proxy application on my firewall, I was up and running this >morning within a few hours of compiling. > >So long fedora! > >:D > >jonathan > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Schuele >Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:50 PM >To: Jonathan Horne >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: what is going on?? > >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?? >> >> > >My .02 cents: >Double check your name resolution functionality. Also, seems I had >trouble once upon a time with IPV6 causing similar issues as well. But >that was quite some time ago. > > > >>thanks >>jonathan >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> >> >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > Could have just turned the firewall off I would think in /etc/rc.conf. Don't see why recompiling a kernel without ipv6 support was necessary as that shouldn't have been preventing network connections at all. Good luck with FreeBSD :). -Garrett