2009/2/27 Saifi Khan <[email protected]>: > i noted that while i'm able to ping the network ie. ping > ftp.openbsd.org, > there is a forever wait for response from the server, whenever i try > to use any service. > Please see below. > > eg. > > HTTP > $ lynx http://www.google.com/ncr > host contacted waiting for reply ... accept cookie (Y) ... host > contacted waiting for reply. > next the application just seems to be silently working forever .. > without any further response. > > FTP > $ ftp ftp.freebsd.org > shows up the login prompt (so i type anonymous) > shows up the passwd prompt (so i type my email address) > next the application just seems to be silently working forever .. > without any further response. > > FTP > $export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/packages/i386/ > pkg_add -i -v irssi > next the application just seems to be silently working forever .. > without any further response. > > > I'm on a broadband connection and it seems to be working since on the > same laptop from the Linux side, i could access the internet and other > services without any issues. > > Not sure what i could be missing here. Any suggestions ?
Give us something to work with here. You're not giving us an awful lot of info there. Are you running PF? Machine, OS, kernel? Network connection? Configuration? Etc, etc. More details == better answers. Also, have you read this: http://openbsd.org/faq/pf/ftp.html regards, --ropers
