From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 07:42:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2244E413 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:42:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C23168FC13 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.2.117.99]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAQ7gNEf016046 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:42:23 GMT (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.7.1 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk qAQ7gNEf016046 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/qAQ7gNEf016046; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none (insecure policy) Message-ID: <50B31D5E.6040604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:42:22 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: emmanuel ilunga Subject: Re: error message References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig96C4386C172E5E8A3FCE6336" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:42:29 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig96C4386C172E5E8A3FCE6336 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 26/11/2012 05:44, emmanuel ilunga wrote: > By ignorance, I named the host: "machine0.example.com" (just following = what > I saw.) This is wrong -- example.com is a special purpose domain-name reserved for documentation. You need to choose yourself a proper domain name or use whatever your ISP provides. However, it has no bearing on the other problem you cite: > Every time I reboot, I get: machine0# Nov26 04:37:03 machine0 > ntpd_initrest[2008]:host name not found: 0.freebsd.pool.org > I get this error, unless I enter my login info; and after I had entered= my > login info, if I don't do anything else right away, this error message > comes back. > And the time is wrong too. > Also, I received 4 installer discs: 2 installers and 2 important packag= es > (2 for amd64 and 2 for i386), how do I read the appropriate Important > Packages disc in? What's happening here is that ntpd is trying to lookup 0.freebsd.pool.org in the DNS, and failing. This implies that DNS is not working at all for any of the applications on your system: ntpd is just the most vocal about complaining (and it will keep retrying and complaining for a long time). Examine the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and check that you can lookup names in the DNS using host(1) or dig(1). Fix that if it doesn't work and try again. If it does work, then maybe there's a problem with routing or your resolv.conf being dynamically generated during the boot sequence: such things can be fixed, but we'd need to know a lot more about the particulars of your systems in order to provide correct advice.= Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig96C4386C172E5E8A3FCE6336 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCzHV4ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxQdQCeI2ACZkIjmUF+1KvB1GohHL6y BUUAn3UYyP0SjVRD0HSaFdGv7ZNqZSGq =kf52 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig96C4386C172E5E8A3FCE6336--