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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"