Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Losher
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > That said, I fully agree with the spirit of this change, I have > myself seen what positive difference it makes for servers in Denmark > to have a slave of the .dk zone, particular for busy mailservers. One of the other objections I have with this change (other than the

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Losher
Doug Barton wrote: > Here is where the problem lies. What you're saying here is simply not > true. I know several of the root operators personally, and in my > previous position as GM of IANA I worked with them directly both > individually and collectively. Everything involving a change to a root

rc.d scripts not honoring rc_conf_files setting in /etc/rc.conf?

2007-06-26 Thread Peter Losher
Hi, Testing out decentralizing rc.conf and breaking it out into two components on a 6.2-RELEASE system: /etc/rc.conf.default- Settings that are standard across all systems (daemons, etc) /etc/rc.conf.local - Settings that are local to the system

IPv6+dummynet causing panic on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Losher
We have been having rampant issues using Dummynet's IPv6 support, and it's been causing panic's every 24-48 hours. Enabled WITNESS and BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER, and this is the result. -=- lock order reversal: (sleepable after non-sleepable) 1st 0xff034809c900 rtentry (rtentry) @ /usr/src/sys/netin

'panic: bad pte' error on 6.2-RELEASE (amd64)

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Losher
We recently updated one of our dual Opteron systems (w/ 4GB RAM) from 5.5 to 6.2 (amd64 wipe and reinstalled) and about once a week, it panics with the below message: -=- TPTE at 0x840028a0 IS ZERO @ VA 800514000 panic: bad pte cpuid = 2 KDB: stack backtrace: panic() at 0x803fdd03

New IPv6 LOR in 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Losher
FYI: saw this when upgrading one of my boxes (quad-cpu Opteron, 2GB of RAM) to 6.2-RELEASE: > Firewall logging enabled > net.inet.ip.fw.enable: 1 -> 1 > lock order reversal: > 1st 0xff00b79c3cc8 inp (raw6inp) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet6/raw_ip6.c:153 > 2nd 0xff00b79c3df8 inp (rawinp) @ /usr/

BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM

2007-01-20 Thread Peter Losher
I have a Matushita based USB CD/DVD-ROM drive that I have been using to install FreeBSD with for the better part of the last year. I just took delivery yesterday of both a HP Proliant 1450 G3 and a generic 1U server based on a Tyan Tomcat i845GV S3098 MB. In both cases, once the USB CD-ROM starte

Re: 'make release' questions...

2006-06-20 Thread Peter Losher
Andrew Li wrote: >> First, is there any way to instruct 'make release' to just build certain >> packages (and their dependencies) for inclusion in the release instead >> of a blanket NOPORTS? There's no need for us spend two/three days > >>From my experience with playing with make release, you c

make rerelease broken at camcontrol...

2006-06-19 Thread Peter Losher
Thanks to all who answered my 'make release' questions; now that I have done the initial release cut, now I am trying out 'make rerelease', and it's bombing at the "stage 4.4: building everything" stage. -=- ===> sbin/camcontrol (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wa

'make release' questions...

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Losher
I have been mucking about w/ 'make release' for some time now (stripping out OpenSSH, sendmail, Heimdal, bits oF BIND, etc.) and while I now have a working .iso image, that will install and update, I have some questions that 'man release' just won't answer. :) First, is there any way to instruct '

How to disable libcom_err from being built?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Losher
Hi - I have an install base of machines running MIT Krb5 (which have their own com_err implementation), and I have always used NO_KERBEROS=true so that the integrated Heimdal stuff wouldn't be built during a buildworld. However libcom_err does, and that causes issues when trying to link in progra

Forcing a da* numbering scheme.

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Losher
Hi - What's the proper method these days for defining a static naming scheme for direct access devices (da*)? In this case, I have two systems (one 5.1 and one 6.0) connected to a read-only RAID appliance (via FibreChannel) while having two SCSI disks onboard for the OS and applications. With th

Re: IPv6 and IPFW

2006-02-19 Thread Peter Losher
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: > plosher> Will this change in 6.1, or will we have to wait for ip6fw to be > plosher> completly removed before the module will support v6 by default? (You > plosher> would have to admit that it's somewhat confusing the way it is now) > > It was already MFC'ed into RELENG_6.

Re: IPv6 and IPFW

2006-02-18 Thread Peter Losher
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: > The ipfw in 6-STABLE has an IPv6 awareness, but it is not enabled as > far as you use ipfw as a KLD module. If ipfw is compiled into kernel, > ipfw does filterling an IPv6 as well. Will this change in 6.1, or will we have to wait for ip6fw to be completly removed before t

Re: Panic when ifconfig'ing nge card.

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Losher
Robert Watson wrote: The below is a NULL pointer dereference in the kernel. Off-hand, it looks very likely to be a driver bug. The question is -- where? The best way to answer this is to compile with DDB/KDB, and do a stack trace from DDB, or get a dump and do similar things with gdb. Here it is

Panic when ifconfig'ing nge card.

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Losher
We are rebuilding a system which has a Netgear GA621 (using the nge driver) installed, and which had run 5.2 & 5.3 pre-releases on amd64 (it's a Dual Opteron box - Tyan Thunder motherboard) We are now intending to make it a backup server and it is running 5.4-PRE/i386 (cvsupped just under 20 hours

Hard lockups using 5.3-RELEASE..

2005-02-19 Thread Peter Losher
We have a Celestica dual-Opteron system w/ 4GB RAM running 5.3-RELEASE/i386 (32-bit), and a SMP-aware kernel, which is experiencing hard lockups. Debugging results below. -=- [BREAK] KDB: enter: Line break on console [thread 100104] Stopped at kdb_enter+0x2b: nop db> where kdb_enter(c084e4c6)

Weird bge related lock order reversal...

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Losher
(apologies if you get this sent twice, I sent the first one to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by mistake) I have a quad-Opteron box running FreeBSD 5.3-p5/i386, and it has two onboard Broadcom copper GigE NIC's (bge0 is used as a private wire, bge1 is the public interface) -=- bge0: mem 0xf114-0xf114ff

Weird bge related lock order reversal...

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Losher
I have a quad-Opteron box running FreeBSD 5.3-p5/i386, and it has two onboard Broadcom copper GigE NIC's (bge0 is used as a private wire, bge1 is the public interface) -=- bge0: mem 0xf114-0xf114,0xf115-0xf115 irq 31 at device 3.0 on pci14 miibus0: on bge0 bge0: Ethernet add

Problems w/ a TDK DVD-RW and burncd...

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Losher
Hi, I purchased a TDK indiDVD ATAPI DVD-RW (model 228H) this morning, and after installing it into this system, it's detected: acd0: CD-RW at ata1-slave PIO4 (FreeBSD thinking it's only a CD-RW is slightly disconcerting...) And playing CD's and burning CD-R's are no problem. But as soon as I

Re: Opera for FreeBSD

2002-11-23 Thread Peter Losher
(Apologies for the late response, but I wanted to get this answer in the archives, and I am now catching up on my -stable mail...) On Monday 04 November 2002 12:03 pm, Dave Cantrell wrote: > Yeah, but if you *bought* the linux license to run under emulation, you > still have to *buy* the FreeBSD