From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 25 06:17:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA6A106568F for ; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:17:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C908FC22 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:17:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n9P6GpVT086618 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:17:07 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20091025061704.GA45862@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Subject: need *local* help to keep THOUGHT.ORG alive 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: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:17:13 -0000 guys, months ago i noticed trouble with Either mouse or KVM. i bought a new mouse, didn't work, so i looked for help from former SeaBUG members. got one answer from a guy at qwest who said to let him know. then the grandson of a writer friend popped up unexpectedly. he suggested which new kvm unit to order;, i did, he installed it, and things work. the real problem is my dns server. it is my dns, mail, and web server. it is more than 11 years old and staring to give off death knell sounds. last week we had a nighttime power outage, and after i had myself pain-pilled up, i got down, found the surge protector in the rat's nest of cables, reset, and presto [!], my servers --- dns and pfsense [both from 1998] came alive. no problem. last sunday afternoon the power went dead for over three hours. this time my dns/mail/web server failed. it took several time of praising, petting, and very-slowly power-cycling to get it to work. so i need somebody who isn't too far from seatac to come over and get my new --- a yes, i'm going to buy something green, like an intel atom tower server -- i need help getting my new, Green server installed. i will download and burn a v 8.0pre FBSD, and then set up the system with ssh/scp. then --- what? it took a few weeks to initially set up my /etc/namedb/* files before i was obligated to switch over. that was and still is the limit of my network savvy. so if there are any volunteers out there, having a bg in networking will be a major help. anybody willing and able to help out? tia, gary PS: this is not a life/death urgent problem. but then this is when power-out and so forth hit. october thru december. i dont know if the server will reboot next time -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php