Alternative for EasySpeedy
In the past I had for some time a dedicated server with EasySpeedy in Denmark. In the beginning it worked alright, but later it turned sour. No or flaky network connection. No replies from support. So I quit. But I still would like to have something similar, where you can do whatever you like with your server, upgrade the OS yourself. And I want FreeBSD and NOT Linux. Finally: I am poor. So cheap, please. Any tips? Thanks! Marc Schneiders ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.1 with old PIIX3 ide-controller?
I have an old dual pentium pro mother board, Elitegroup, ECS P6FX2-A. It has the sometimes troublesome PIIX3 ide controller. I am very happy with it running 4 stable for web and DNS and mail. But the hard disks in it are now too small. So I decided to do it up totally and put in a 120 GB harddisk. Since 5 has better SMP I went for that. Maybe I shouldn't have? The harddisk as such is working for the install. Install complains about the geometry. I've tried both ignoring that and setting the correct (vid. what the bios thinks) geometry. In either case, install goes fine, but when the system reboots, it shows a mountroot prompt. With verbose logging I get this: ad0: success setting WDMA2 on Intel PIIX3 chip ad0: WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3/75.13B75 ATA-6 disk at ata0-master ad0: 114473MB (234441648 sectors), 232581 C, 16 H, 63 S, 512 B ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, WDMA2 ad0: piomode=12 dmamode=34 udmamode=69 cblid=1 GEOM: new disk ad0 ar: FreeBSD check1 failed [0] f:80 typ:165 s(CHS):0/1/1 e(CHS):1023/15/63 s:63 l:234441585 [1] f:00 typ:0 s(CHS):0/0/0 e(CHS):0/0/0 s:0 l:0 [2] f:00 typ:0 s(CHS):0/0/0 e(CHS):0/0/0 s:0 l:0 [3] f:00 typ:0 s(CHS):0/0/0 e(CHS):0/0/0 s:0 l:0 GEOM: Configure ad0s1, start 32256 length 120034091520 end 120034123775 GEOM: Configure ad0s1a, start 0 length 3221225472 end 3221225471 GEOM: Configure ad0s1b, start 3221225472 length 1073741824 end 4294967295 GEOM: Configure ad0s1c, start 0 length 120034091520 end 120034091519 GEOM: Configure ad0s1d, start 4294967296 length 18253611008 end 22548578303 GEOM: Configure ad0s1e, start 22548578304 length 18253611008 end 40802189311 GEOM: Configure ad0s1f, start 40802189312 length 5368709120 end 46170898431 GEOM: Configure ad0s1g, start 46170898432 length 42949672960 end 89120571391 GEOM: Configure ad0s1h, start 89120571392 length 30913520128 end 120034091519 Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot If I type in ufs:ad0s1a everything is fine. It boots. But the machine is to go back in collocation 40 miles from me. So this is not really a happy situation. It seems a problem of not recognised geometry. How do I solve that? (Please keep CC on this, so I get it myself. Thx.) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Funny DNS connection attempts to own IP
Mar 14 14:35:12 pan /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 21.19.2.97:4173 from 21.19.2.97:53 Mar 14 14:35:12 pan /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 21.19.2.97:4175 from 21.19.2.97:53 Mar 14 14:35:12 pan /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 21.19.2.97:4177 from 21.19.2.97:53 Mar 14 14:35:12 pan /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 21.19.2.97:4180 from 21.19.2.97:53 What are these funny DNS connection attempts about? They are to the machines own IP number. What is it asking itself? Why on these ports? This is on 4 stable of 10 days ago. It runs named (bind) twice on two different IPs, but that doesn't seem relevant at first sight. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: DNS: Wrong IP:s on GTLD servers
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, at 13:00 [=GMT+0100], Janine C.Buorditez wrote: I have a DNS problem. I just got a new block of IP:s and I need to update the IP:s in the GTLD servers. I take it this is normally done through the domain name registrar, but in my case they only allow hostnames to be entered as nameservers and not IP:s (godaddy.com). This is true for ALL registrars. Names not numbers. It is in the nature of the DNS. The great advantage is, that you just have to change one record if you change IPs. I see NS1 still has my old IP and NS2 still has the IP to my old secondary. Is the only way to fix this to contact Godaddy? Yes. They may have a page on their site to do the IP number change. At least some registrars do, e.g. Tucows or Enom. It takes some time for the update of the IP number to propagate. So if possible, leave the old numbers up for a bit. A day or two. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to determine if cpu-cache is working?
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, at 12:59 [=GMT+0200], Toomas Aas wrote: I am talking about a PII 300 MHz. The bios settings are OK for cpu-cache. The machine is slower than a PI 75 MHz. It does not look like hard disks. There is nothing in dmesg or messages that looks weird. So how can I see whether the cpu-cache memory is functioning? Could it be broken? memtest86 (www.memtest86.com) should be able to answer this. Even though it's main purpose is testing RAM, it also shows the information about L1 and L2 cache. Thanks. I cannot really (or easily) use this though, as the box is collocated, and not next door. If it would be here, I would long have tried replacing hardware parts to see what it is. I am now running memtest from ports. This gives no errors so far. But it seems only to test the unused RAM. I would have expected that the functioning of cache and RAM should be visible in some utility like systat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to determine if cpu-cache is working?
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, at 13:15 [=GMT-0500], Lucas Holt wrote: Is it possible that the processor is overheating instead of the cache not working? I had a similar problem with a linux gaming server running a Celeron 300mhz. The machine was very slow and sometimes inconsistent. From my understanding, pentium chips 200mhz and up down clock when they get to hot to prevent the processor from melting. This is possible, naturally. But how do I find out? I do not mind paying a visit to the machine, even if it costs me a day all in all. But I want to do it only once. Not 4 times. So I would like to find out from a distance _what_ to replace. I am asking too much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Can I run my own Dynamic DNS server for private use ??
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, at 07:54 [=GMT-0800], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:29:29 -0800 (PST), Peter Elsner wrote: Sure... I'm almost positive there are ports available that do that sort of thing, I see a number of ports that can do the Client side but none to run as a server. The server side you get for free with the registration of your domain, at least with Enom (and its many resellers, which are much cheaper, see e.g. www.domainless.com). On the client side you run from cron (say every 15 minutes) just this script: #!/bin/sh #This sends the dynamic IP number of the Cable Connection #to Enom to update the IN A of myveryowndomain.com. fetch -o update.txt http://dynamic.name-services.com/interface.asp \?Command=SetDNSHost\Zone=\%myveryowndomain.com\DomainPa ssword=\%verysecret To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
How to determine if cpu-cache is working?
I am talking about a PII 300 MHz. The bios settings are OK for cpu-cache. The machine is slower than a PI 75 MHz. It does not look like hard disks. There is nothing in dmesg or messages that looks weird. So how can I see whether the cpu-cache memory is functioning? Could it be broken? Bonus question: How can I see at what 'speed' the RAM runs? Could there be something wrong with the RAM, not generating any error messages, no signal 11s? CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (300.68-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x634 Stepping = 4 Features=0x80f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX real memory = 671072256 (655344K bytes) avail memory = 649469952 (634248K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel kernel at 0xc02e. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled Using $PIR table, 8 entries at 0xc00f0e80 npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge on motherboard atapci0: Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0 orm0: Option ROMs at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc87ff on isa0 ad0: 29311MB Maxtor 53073H6 [59554/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 38166MB Maxtor 4D040H2 [77545/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Setting up Unknown ISA Ethernet Card
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, at 10:30 [=GMT-0500], Chan, Herman (MTO) wrote: I am new to freebsd and I am trying to set up a ISA ethernet card so I can connect to interent with my cable modem. Since I don't know the brand name of the ISA ethernet card, There must be something written on this card. Enter that in Google and see what comes up. Or tell it here, if Google doesn't work. I've been having hard time setting up the OS. Any idea how can I make it work, is there any way I can see the IRQ and port for the ISA card without runny another OS on the machine? Does FreeBSD _see_ your card? Is it mentioned in the kernel messages? If so, what do they exactly say? Or if you get to the install, is the card listed among the network devices that you can use to install over? Look for some device with a mac address, e.g.: ep0: 3Com 3C509-Combo EtherLink III at port 0x310-0x31f irq 10 on isa0 ep0: Ethernet address 00:60:08:47:b1:0b This Ethernet address indicates that it is an ethernet card :-) And how can I test if the ethernet card is up and running? Usually there is some sort of DOS program for these old cards. You can run it from a DOS floppy. This program can be used to set IRQ etc. as well as to test the functioning. Some of these cards also can be set to both BNC and UTP connectors, some even have AUI. Often this works fine when set to auto. However, if it set by some setup program in the past to do BNC and you use UTP, it won't communicate obviously. Some cards do have jumpers to set IRQ etc. And then you have to enter the correct data of IRQ etc during the FreeBSD install. Precisely because it is ISA. And sometimes you also have to set the IRQ and memory address as reserved in the BIOS. Otherwise those of your ISA card may be used by some PCI device, and then it doesn't work, of course. In my experience this is true for the Western Digital 8013 cards. It is a bit of work, but many of these old cards do run fine still, and you can pick them up from the street. Same with BNC cable, which has far better connectors than UTP (RJ45, a.k.a. cat 5). I mean, stand on a RJ45 connector, and you know what I mean. And you don't need a hub, and have less cables on the floor, since BNC is daisy chain. So if you are not going for 100 MBit, go ahead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: arplookup going mad
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, at 16:43 [=GMT-0500], IAccounts wrote: Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arplookup 213.196.2.97 failed: host is not on local network Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 13.16.2.97rt I had this back in the summer time, and it was due to having an IP address aliased on one of my nics in a block that was not on the local subnet. Thanks for your eply. Alas, this is not the case. The machine has 3 IP numbers from one half class C from my ISP. And a separate full class C (199.a.b/24) is routed to it. This all works fine. The IP number the arplookup complaints are about is from another server, which I have collocated elsewhere. For a while I thought I had caused the problem by giving two of the three IPs my ISP gave me the same reverse DNS names as two on my other (old) server, which at the time I was considering to take down after two months or so, but didn't. I described this a few months back here. Basically reverse DNS now sees the same name for (names and numbers invented): OLD NEW apple.exter.net 13.16.2.97 apple.exter.net 97.98.99.99 pear.joyrider.nl 13.16.2.98 pear.joyrider.nl 97.98.99.98 u.com2.us 97.98.99.110 (main IP) The normal DNS only gives out 13.14.15.16 for apple.exter.net. The old thing. So if the new machine does a lookup for the IP of its own apple.exter.net, it gets 13.16.2.97, and not the IP on its own NIC, 97.98.99.99. Then it starts looking for 13.16.2.97 and sending these arp complaints. This is what I thought. But I think it isn't relevant. For two reasons: 1. Why not similar problems for pear.joyrider.nl? 2. Why still problems when I change the DNS for apple.exter.net and give it two IPs in the zone for exter.net? 3. Since reverse DNS is not only a mess with me (because I have to deal with sys admins of my ISP to get it changed...), but all over the net, I would think this problem would occur a lot more, if wrong reverse DNS caused it. Check the block the NIC's bound IP is on, then verify that any blocks that the aliases are in are reachable from that machine. Everything works fine, only at times syslog is very busy. By the way, it stopped as miraculously as it started in the mean time. Which makes me believe it is a problem caused by some router. I would like to understand it though... -- [01] All ideas are vintage not new or perfect. http://logoff.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
arplookup going mad
I have posted a question about this earlier, without getting an answer. Then the problem was occasionally. Now the machine is going mad over the same thing. It gives this every second in messages: Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 13.16.2.97rt Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arplookup 213.196.2.97 failed: host is not on local network Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 13.16.2.97rt Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arplookup 213.196.2.97 failed: host is not on local network Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 13.16.2.97rt Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arplookup 213.196.2.97 failed: host is not on local network Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 13.16.2.97rt Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arplookup 213.196.2.97 failed: host is not on local network Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 13.16.2.97rt Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arplookup 213.196.2.97 failed: host is not on local network Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 13.16.2.97rt Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arplookup 213.196.2.97 failed: host is not on local network Feb 16 18:35:06 voo /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 13.16.2.97rt How do I put an end to this? The IP mentioned is NOT on the local network. I do NOT tell it anywhere it is. Nothing has changed in my config. Why does it do this, and why every second all of a sudden? How do I stop it? man llinfo gives 0, apropos llinfo gives 0. man arplookup: nothing, apropos arplookup: nothing. I rebooted, to no avail. It came back within half an hour. Since the machine is colocated (and not next door) I do not want to lock myself out by trying funny things with arp -s. And I tried that on a machine here, and it refused it anyway for a host not on the local network. As it should, I am sure. Any really good ideas? uname -a: FreeBSD [hostname] 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #13: Sat Nov 16 16:09:35 CET 2002 marc@[hostname]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FUCHSIA i386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net?
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, at 14:53 [=GMT+0100], Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: $TTL 36000 @ IN SOA frodo.my.domain. root.frodo.my.domain. ( 1 ; serial 36000 ; refresh 18000 ; retry 1209600; expire 36000 ; minimum ) NS frodo.my.domain. @ IN A127.0.0.1 * IN A127.0.0.1 localhost IN A127.0.0.1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?
On 1 Feb 2003, at 11:19 [=GMT-0500], Lowell Gilbert wrote:
John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest
such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more looking.
badsect(8)
I tried that with the bad sector numbers (with both ranges
mentioned in the messages, since I wasn't sure which are the
true ones):
nud# badsect BAD 99107103 83247423
block 99107103 out of range of file system
block 83247423 out of range of file system
Don't forget to run ``fsck /dev/ad0h''
nud# badsect BAD 27000944 19071104
block 27000944 in non-data area: cannot attach
block 19071104 in non-data area: cannot attach
Don't forget to run ``fsck /dev/ad0h''
After I ran fsck it refused to mark the partition as clean. That was
not nice, since /usr was on it.
Since there was quite a bit of space on the /home partition, I decided
to move the content of the affected partition to that. So /usr moved
to /home/usr (minus 99% of src and obj and ports).
So I thought a new fs ('reformat') and everything is OK. I could even
move /usr back then.
Alas, bad luck again, because:
Does fBSD's file system creation make sure that all blocks of a newly
created file system are in fact usable? I would be surprised if there were
no cross checks in the formatting/partitioning/fs-creation path. If the
bad blocks weren't linked in the new filesystem, they would have become
invisible for practical purposes.
newfs doesn't make any such attempts any more, *because* the hardware
has already done it for them.
You are very right. I tried it. newfs didn't tell me anything about
bad sectors, so I guess it either missed them on purpose or
accidently. Also I noticed it did not take much time to do 17GB. So a
media check sort of seemed unlikely. It did freeze my console for a
few seconds, while the only serious other thing it was doing was make
buildworld.
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How to map bad sectors on IDE?
Recently a cvsup failed because of an input/output error in the directory /usr/src/contrib/perl5/h2pl. I tried deleting the content of the directory, and found out there were hardware problems with the disk. For it says: ls: eg: Input/output error And in the console messages: Feb 1 00:50:10 zeist /kernel: ad0s1h: hard error reading fsbn 99107103 of 27000944-27000959 (ad0s1 bn 99107103; cn 6169 tn 33 sn 39) status=59 error=40 Similar messages appear for this physical address and another one when the filesystem is checked daily at 03:00 h. This is happening for some time now (since January 18), but did not give any problems. Jan 30 03:05:54 zeist /kernel: ad0s1h: hard error reading fsbn 99107103 of 27000944-27000959 (ad0s1 bn 9 9107103; cn 6169 tn 33 sn 39) status=59 error=40 Jan 30 03:06:01 zeist /kernel: ad0s1h: hard error reading fsbn 83247423 of 19071104-19071119 (ad0s1 bn 8 3247423; cn 5181 tn 232 sn 42) status=59 error=40 I have searched Google to find a solution to mark off these two blocks/inodes (or however I should call them), so that they will not be used anymore. All I found is that this is not possible on IDE. Advise: Throw away the disk. Now this I find a bit radical :-) Esp. since the disk is about 3 years old. Any advise other than throw away the disk (or claim a new one)? Is there really no way to tell FreeBSD to discard these sectors? One more detail: Last time the machine booted it thought this of the drive: Jan 8 12:28:58 zeist /kernel: ad0: 39083MB Maxtor 5T040H4 [79408/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 Thanks! -- [14] I am not a lawyer. http://logoff.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors onIDE?)
On 31 Jan 2003, at 19:43 [=GMT-0500], Lowell Gilbert wrote: Marc Schneiders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have searched Google to find a solution to mark off these two blocks/inodes (or however I should call them), so that they will not be used anymore. All I found is that this is not possible on IDE. Advise: Throw away the disk. Now this I find a bit radical :-) Esp. since the disk is about 3 years old. Why is it radical? Because it involves a lot of work to backup the disk, open up the machine, check it with some software that reports something that I could tell Maxtor, have them give me another disk (if they do that). Wait, wait, wait. And all this time machine not working obviously, which is extra bad since it is the key machine here that connects others to the internet. All in all I would say 10 hours work, a few weeks of waiting. So why not first try something (if it exists, which was my question) that does not involve picking up a screwdriver and turning of my network here? Or lets say I am poor (which I am) and cannot really just run off and buy a new disk? The one with problems may be under warrenty, it may not. I cannot tell before I take the machine apart and read the serial on the disk. Your advise sounds perfectly sound for IBM and Microsoft and the Pentagon. But for a home or small office situation, there might be another way to deal with it? Especially since we are not talking about something 10 years old or heavily used in a mailserver. After all, IDE disks already do bad-block remapping internally, so you've built up a *lot* of bad sectors already if they're starting to become visible to the operating system... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FW: Running 4.7-REL need bind-9.1+
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, at 09:49 [=GMT-0800], Everett Batey EL wrote: My concerns are over my FreeBSD 4.7-REL bind-8. I am under a lot of pressure (to stay on the air) to upgrade just the bind 8.x to preferably 9.2.2. IS THERE ANY WAY to just get the /usr/ports/.../bind-9.2.x FOR 4.7R ??? i I dont want to get the whole ports and ii I dont want to upgrade my whole release, and, iii I do want a clean bind-9.2+ that is well tuned to the 4.7 .. HOW ??? Install the package for bind 9.2.1. It is here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org//pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.7-release/net/bind9-9.2.1.tgz So do: 1. cd to your home directory (or some other place where you want the file) 2. fetch ftp://ftp.free... etc (as above) 3. su 4. pkg_add bind9* 5. put in your /etc/rc.conf: named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named named_flags=-c /etc/namedb/named.conf 6. reboot and watch for any errors, specifically: 1. Bind9 wants a TTL in each zone file. So if there are none in yours (Bind8 doesn't insist on them), Bind9 will complain. Maybe not even start. So what you then do is add in the beginning (after the comments, if any present on a separate line): $TTL 21600 The number is a suggestion. Could be more or less, depending on your needs. 21600 seconds is six hours. 2. Bind9 wants to starts rndc, which will probably not work. It is a program to talk with Bind9. You probably will not need it. So you can then ignore the error. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, at 14:54 [=GMT+1300], Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:29:22PM -0500, stan wrote: I want to use bind 9 from the ports tree. I see how to prevent the bundled bind from being built the next time I make world, and I see how to change the init files et all to use the ports bind9. What I _don't_ see (and I'm certain it's just my lack of knowledge here), is a clean way to remove all teh traces of the existing bersion of bind which was built the last time I did a make world. Could someone enlighten me? You don't remove the bundle BIND. All you do is add the following lines into your /etc/rc.conf to run the port-installed Bind9. named_enable=YES # Run named, the DNS server (or NO). named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named But would this also make the system use the dig that comes with bind9, which is put in /usr/local/bin by the port? Would it not be easiest to tell the port to install in /usr and not in /usr/local? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ata1 resetting
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 07:31 [=GMT-0800], Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:58:31AM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote: [...] Jan 21 19:47:39 pan /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Jan 21 19:47:39 pan /kernel: done Jan 21 22:06:39 pan /kernel: ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting snip Do you have DMA enabled on those drives when possibly they don't support it? sysctl reports: hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 What type of ribbon cable are you using - a 40 or 80 conductor? 40, it is a rather old motherboard, as I mentioned. Try setting the sysctl(8) value hw.ata.ata_dmai to 0 and see what results you get. The errors you are getting look similar to ones I've seen where the kernel is trying to use DMA on a drive that doesn't support it, or on a drive that supports DMA that is using an improper 40 conductor cable instead of the correct 80 conductor cable. You can use the atacontrol(8) utilitly to find out more about the capabilities of your devices. For example, `atacontrol cap 0 0` should give you all manner of info about your primary master ATA device. This is what it says: ATA channel 0, Master, device ad0: ATA/ATAPI revision4 device model ST34312A serial number [secret] firmware revision 3.09 cylinders 8354 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 8420832 sectors lba48 not supported dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support EnableValue Vendor write cacheyes yes read ahead yes yes dma queued no no 0/00 SMART yes no microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management no no 0/00 automatic acoustic management no no 0/000/00 So it can do DMA, but doesn't use it?? I have another machine with the same hardware, except for video and ethernet cards, that does _not_ have the error messages (and the problem). It also has just one harrdisk, and the problem machine two, on two channels. Can that be it? [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
ata1 resetting
Does someone see some sort of pattern in the times (from /var/log/messages) below? I do but know not what. And what could explain it? Please, note that it occurs on both harddisks and on both controllers. Something cron related? Something swap related, since there is swap space on both disks? I think, however, that swap is hardly used: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/ad0s1b524160 16 524144 0%Interleaved /dev/rad2b 5241600 524160 0%Interleaved Total 1048320 16 1048304 0% I am not aware of any enormous hard disk activity at the times in the list. The machine does: DNS, Web, Mail. Not very busy: load averages: 0.09, 0.06, 0.05 The machine runs: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #11: Wed Jan 8 00:25:26 CET 2003. The motherboard (ECS Elite P6FX2-A for dual pentium pro, 440FX chipset) has been complaining about ata for a long time (with slightly different wording in the past, but I guess that was a change in the code). But it gets more frequent now. Jan 21 18:49:40 pan /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Jan 21 18:49:40 pan /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Jan 21 18:49:40 pan /kernel: done Jan 21 19:47:39 pan /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Jan 21 19:47:39 pan /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Jan 21 19:47:39 pan /kernel: done Jan 21 22:06:39 pan /kernel: ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Jan 21 22:06:39 pan /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Jan 21 22:06:39 pan /kernel: done Jan 21 22:36:39 pan /kernel: ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Jan 21 22:36:39 pan /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Jan 21 22:36:39 pan /kernel: done Jan 21 22:37:40 pan /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Jan 21 22:37:40 pan /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Jan 21 22:37:40 pan /kernel: done Jan 21 22:39:40 pan /kernel: ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Jan 21 22:39:40 pan /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Jan 21 22:39:40 pan /kernel: done Jan 22 01:24:38 pan /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Jan 22 01:24:38 pan /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Jan 22 01:24:38 pan /kernel: done To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: TX underrun
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, at 12:35 [=GMT-0500], Doug Reynolds wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 03:17:01 +0100 (CET), Marc Schneiders wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, at 22:27 [=GMT-0500], Doug Reynolds wrote: On 17 Jan 2003 00:08:11 +, Stacey Roberts wrote: does anyone know of a way to automatically increase the buffers to say like 256 bytes? Mine automatically DEcreases at an underrun. It's a 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL. xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 180 bytes xl1: transmission error: 90 xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 240 bytes does that mean it is increasing or decreasing? The answer is obvious. I seem to remember that mine (which I was talking about, not yours) decreased the buffer. But I've searched in vain for examples in old /var/log/messages. Maybe my memory fails me. Or maybe there are different types of problems. -- [07] Just do nothing to remain with us. http://logoff.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: TX underrun
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, at 22:27 [=GMT-0500], Doug Reynolds wrote: On 17 Jan 2003 00:08:11 +, Stacey Roberts wrote: does anyone know of a way to automatically increase the buffers to say like 256 bytes? Mine automatically DEcreases at an underrun. It's a 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: TX underrun
On 16 Jan 2003, at 22:35 [=GMT-], Stacey Roberts wrote: Nothing to worry about, but either reducing system load .., or buying a more efficient nic would see these messages off. Could it also be the cable? I once had these messages on a colocated machine, occasionally, and they went away when they put a new cable from the switch to it. Since the machine was then also moved and therefore rebooted, and before that upgraded, I cannot exclude that it is a concidence, and that it was not the cable. But it won't harm to exchange it and see what happens. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: named messages in /var/log/messages
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, at 18:10 [=GMT-0600], Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 14), Stacey Roberts said: named[143]: denied update from [host_IP].1268 for 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN Is that host running Windows 2000 or XP? Does it also have Register this connection's addresses in DNS checked in (deep Yes, its a Win2K Pro machine. You'll get the messages on whatever machine is the primary DNS for your domain. The checkbox tells W2K to directly update the DNS record for its IP (usually handed to it by the DHCP server). I prefer the Netware way, where the DHCP server notifies the DNS server itself, instead of hoping the client does it right. You can safely ignore the message if you want. And what about similar messages, where the update is tried, not on private IP reverse DNS, but on . (the root zone), or some fancy domain I happen(ed) to have running on the server (I remember eightball.net and kickingback.com)? And what if it comes from machines 15 hops away? Examples: Nov 12 12:02:27 [hostname] named[82]: denied update from [12.234.42.233].32776 for . IN Nov 12 12:18:56 [hostname] named[82]: denied update from [12.234.42.233].32776 for . IN Nov 12 12:02:27 [hostname] named[82]: denied update from [12.234.42.233].32776 for . IN Nov 12 12:18:56 [hostname] named[82]: denied update from [12.234.42.233].32776 for . IN Jan 14 11:23:08 [hostname] named[22121]: client 64.30.161.135#32777: update forwarding denied Jan 14 14:02:15 [hostname] named[22121]: client 194.237.39.97#35558: update forwarding denied Jan 14 14:20:57 [hostname] named[22121]: client 194.237.39.97#35559: update forwarding denied Jan 14 14:23:10 [hostname] named[22121]: client 64.30.161.135#32777: update forwarding denied I changed to Bind 9 somewhere in Autumn, which may explain why I don't get the exact domains anymore in the console messages. I haven't researched that. I am guessing. I do not run reverse DNS for private address space on the box, so the update of these addresses cannot be what it is about, or can it? -- [04] We value you like our close relations. http://logoff.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: how do i setup my FreeBSD box to act like an RARP server?
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, at 17:28 [=GMT-0800], Bsd Neophyte wrote: in order for my to do this though, i need to be able to have my FreeBSD box act as an RARP server. can anyone tell me how to do this? man rarpd tells it all, but is a bit short to get it started (and to see if the machine you want to install can talk to the rarp server), make on the server a file /etc/ethers looking like this: 08:00:2B:27:7D:16 vax where the numbers are the MAC address of the network card (you should get that from it, or from its bios) of the client, and vax is the hostname for the machine. Then put in /etc/hosts (on the server) vax 10.0.0.123 where 10.0.0.123 is the IP address the client is to have This should let your client get the IP address from the rarp server. If you want rarpd to start always at boot, add to /etc/rc.conf rarpd_enable=YES # Run rarpd (or NO). rarpd_flags=-as # Flags to rarpd. Or start it manually (as root) rarpd -as Next stage is to do tftpboot, which depends on your architecture, the Vax I ran NetBSD on, did this through mopd. But that is something from DEC. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: add a static route at boot time
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, at 00:44 [=GMT+0100], Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Could somebody please confirm that the place to add a static route at boot time is rc.conf? For instance static_routes=192.168.1.0/24 192.168.0.1 Maybe that works. This worked for me (just in case the above doesn't work, and everybody is having Christmas, and don't read lists): static_routes=meisje route_meisje=-net 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.1.1 Is there a way to ensure that the route is added before all network daemons are started? Does it not do that? -- [03] I thank you for your time and interest. http://logoff.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: DSBL Open Relay Removal
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, at 21:35 [=GMT-0600], Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 10), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: DSBL will sends an email to abuse or postmaster @ the ip address of the server listed. The current sendmail server rejects the attempts from DSBL to send an email to the account: Result: 12.158.17.27 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 postmaster@[12.158.17.27]... Relaying denied Giving up on 12.158.17.27. Try putting that IP in /etc/mail/local-host-names, but I don't know if sendmail will accept IPs in that file. It does. And you need it there. Without the [], which you need, I think, if you send mail to an IP. -- [03] I thank you for your time and interest. http://logoff.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: mesage ?
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, at 10:59 [=GMT-], Tiago Andre wrote: Whats the meean of the mesage: ping6:sendmsg:NO route to host You have no IPv6 routing configured. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Mobile on serial port
I would like to set up the following: a monitoring program, that send emails if there are problems (with any of a bunch of servers), which emails are turned into SMS (short messages to mobile phone, standard system in Europe) and the send out over this mobile unit on the serial port. I want to do this myself, since the people who should get an alert are on different mobile providers Questions: * Which gsm modules do work with FreeBSD? Should have the European 900 MHz preferably. Few use the 1800 MHz here. The 1900 MHz (US standard) does NOT work here. * Software recommendations? Both for the monitoring as for the SMS part. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: [OT] Spare mailservers
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, at 16:53 [=GMT+0100], Len Conrad wrote: We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now expect. To avoid having to edit all the DNS zones again then why do that? are you running MS DNS? No, but the people I am working for right now, have a primary running NT. And editing remotely is a pain in the ass. So slw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Routing trouble... slow FTP
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, at 09:51 [=GMT+1100], Richardson, Martin wrote: I have a dial on demand server running FreeBSD 4.7. This also has wu-ftpd running as well. I have noticed that whe trying to FTP to the box, it takes a long time to connect (I usually have the modem switched off, but will dial if I have left it on while trying to FTP into the box). I have noticed also that Sendmail has trouble sending local mail (daily reports etc). These problems dissappear when a the ppp link is up, or I have killed the ppp process. I suspect these problems might be due to the routing table entries made by ppp (add default HISADDR). netstat -r takes forever, unless the link is up. When I do a tcpdump -i tun0 I get 192.168.x.x traffic going to my ISP's DNS servers. One wonders what there is in your /etc/resolv.conf What would be the best way to fix this? use PPP's firewalling, or IPFW? or is there a better way? TIA, Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Routing trouble... slow FTP
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, at 10:08 [=GMT+1100], Richardson, Martin wrote: OK. this is from memory, so please excuse any inconsistencies (I am at not near my FreeBSD box) search netspace.net.au nameserver 203.x.x.1 nameserver 203.x.x.1 I had a look at this and changed netspace.net.au to martin.org (the machine is tux2.martin.org) This didn't work :0( No, it shouldn't. But I would kill the whole line. Try nameserver 127.0.0.1 This makes only sense if you rund Named. Cheers, Martin One wonders what there is in your /etc/resolv.conf What would be the best way to fix this? use PPP's firewalling, or IPFW? or is there a better way? TIA, Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: domain names, named, and all the problems that go with it.
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, at 11:56 [=GMT-0500], Mike Berning wrote: I registerd my nameserver with godaddy's webform, ns1.example.com, and put in it's ip address, then in their webform I told it to list my domain in my nameserver and one of the root servers. Did this about two hours ago. If I do a whois it still lists the two previous nameservers I wasn in. Perhaps I'll just let it sit a while, maybe it will 'catch up'. A lot of the whois servers do not update real time but only after so many hours. The central whois updates just once a day, so you will see your old nameservers in there for some time possibly. However, the whois has no port in resolution... So what matters is when the nameservers of .com/.net/.org are updated. This is done twice a day. If you want to check whether this has already happened: dig @a.gtld-servers.net YOURDOMAIN.com. ns I think the nameservers for .biz and .us domains updates every 10 or 15 minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: icecast
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, at 10:53 [=GMT-0600], Brian Henning wrote: hello- i have icecast installed on my bsd box and it runs great. can someone tell me how i can automatically start this program on boot? Put a tiny shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d e.g. #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/icecast (Assuming that is where it is and how it's called.) Give it a name that ends in .sh, say ice.sh. Don't forget to set the file executable (chmod 700 ice.sh). This works for all programs. At boot the system checks for files ending in .sh in the the dir mentioned and runs them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: your mail
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, at 13:59 [=GMT-], Tiago Andre wrote: Hello there again... iam trying install a program called iptraf, but i have some problems on the instalation, i dont know if this is the good place but here it is: when i make the make install appears: install: unknown group root What's the problem? Iam the root?? The root-group is called 'wheel' in BSD. Have a look at /etc/group. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ``root''?
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, at 16:19 [=GMT-0600], Jack L. Stone wrote: Root of the user tree. Root of all users. Root of the machine. Tradition. Maybe I was reading into it just a bit too deep then... ;) I always related it to running as root which has root access to the root of the system, or the root of the tree etc root = GOD of the system. Naturally it means 'penis'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, at 17:52 [=GMT-0500], Peter Leftwich wrote:
But I wonder why there is no unix
standard command to view and/or set the PC's current timezone!
Perhaps I don't understand your problem? What is wrong with 'date'?
voo:marc {783} date
Mon Nov 4 00:12:38 CET 2002
So I have CET = Central European Time.
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Re: Resolving hostnames takes forever
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, at 18:17 [=GMT+0100], Volker Kindermann wrote: It's very easy to do this with djbdns. Just install the daemontools, then djbdns and configure your machine as a local cache (if it's standalone) or an external cache (if you serve a network). Instructions are on the webpage http://cr.yp.to Beleave me, it's as simple as installing something from ports and kills all your dns-Problems. You don't need to bother with bind and named.conf, etc. Believe me, Bind is much easier to get running than djbdns. You don't have to install it at all (it comes with the main system), and it is not some cluster of interdepending programs. How to start Bind at boot, and what to config someone else already described today here. Djbdns may be safer, better, whatever than Bind, it is _not_ easier to install and get running. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Off Topic probably (Re: Domains)
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, at 21:58 [=GMT-0600], DaleCo Help Desk wrote: From: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 2:38 PM wanting to buy and host a domain myself with apache on my freebsd box. I would like some recomendations on some companies that offer domains for a pretty good price along with the link to their website. Please include if the site only offers .com, .org, .net or all. I use dotster.com. Seems like it varies depending on the TLD, I think I've got .coms at 14.95, .biz's at 21.95, etc. They have specials once in a while, I think they have most TLD's available. Since it seems we are getting worried about a few dollars a year (and why not), how about _free_ domains in alternative roots? See for example: http://www.dot-low.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, at 17:28 [=GMT-0700], Nick Rogness wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, RD wrote: How do I connect this? Do I use 2 eithernets 1 to net and 1 to a hub? I also have 1 crossover rj45 cable for card to card connection that I haven't tried yet... Yes, 2 ethernet cards. One for the outside network and one for the inside network. Basic stuff. If your ethernet card has two types of connectors (RJ45 aka UTP and BNC [which is a thing that sticks out of the card]) then you could try to connect the adsl-modem to the RJ45 and the rest of your stuff to the BNC, which would save you the hub (as BNC is daisy chain) and one network card. And black thick dusty coax cable can be found for free everywhere. And BNC connectors don't break so easily! Don't forget to let us know how it works! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Returned message
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, at 07:10 [=GMT-0700], Paolo wrote: I've tried to send a message to freebsd-stable but the freebsd.org mail server refused it (see the reply below). Is interbusiness.it put into some black-lists? This is my access provider (postfix run on my machine) and it's the largest Italian provider, I hope you have not blacklisted it! I see a lot of spam coming from the IP-ranges of interbusiness.it. So I would not be surprised, if this ISP is punished for its lack of abuse prevention by inclusion in some spamblock databases. Talk to your ISP... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Returned message
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, at 13:06 [=GMT-0700], Paolo wrote: Seriously, we can't fight spam blocking e-mails coming from specific domains, or we end-up with everything blocked. Most if not all spam blocking is by IP numbers, not domains where the email addresses are in, as these are usually fake in spam. If the reverse dns is working (which it is often not for spam hosts), you can, if I am not mistaken, block them by the domains that show up from a reverse lookup by listing these in /etc/mail/access. Let's attack ISPs. Here in Italy I can prosecute spammers as a new law is in place from some months ago. So far I've no more evidence of spam coming from Italian ISP. I don't think this approach will work. Nobody has time to prove in great detail why they block certain IP numbers or whole ranges of them. It would mean keeping emails to abuse@ and the auto replies received, plus the spam messages to show that it did not help to complain. One would have to set up a database. Dealing with spam wastes already enough time. It may sound unfriendly (isn't meant that way though): Nobody is obliged to accept your mail. If you wear the wrong clothes, some people or groups will not talk to you. The same is true for email, if you use the wrong ISP. Whether the other side is right or wrong in rejecting you personally, is an interesting point to battle, but it won't help you, unless you have time to convince each and everyone to unblock your ISP. Easier to change to another ISP. Which has the advance benefit of reducing the business of those that allow spam. Please give me evidence and I'll prosecute interbusiness or whatever else The problem is, you will probably not find the people guilty of the spam. And even before your court case starts, hundreds of new spammers using the same ISP will have filled your inbox with spam. Have a look at http://ordb.org. You can search there also whether an IP is on other black lists than theirs. And let your ISP know what you've found. And tell him you cannot send email to lots of people, because he has no decent abuse policy and/or handling. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, at 00:25 [=GMT+0200], Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:54:02PM -0400, Liquid wrote: Recent versions of FreeBSD require at least 16MB RAM to install. The last version that could be installed on 8MB RAM was FreeBSD 3.2 One possibility is to install 3.2 on it and then upgrade to 4.x in steps afterwards. Or put the harddisk in another machine and install/configure FreeBSD 4 there. Some time ago I got some 3 version running that way on a notebook (486/33) with 5MB (640k + 4MB actually), installing on another 486, making kernel stripped of all that was not necessary (NFS costs a lot of bytes) there too, and it did run. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: VIA EPIA ITX MoBo
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, at 20:48 [=GMT-0500], Steve Fettig wrote: I have two coming this week slated for mini-backup machines. I can post how things go as far as the installation and usage once I have the machines running - if people are interested. Because the boards are designed to run x86 OS's and there have been many success stories regarding running Windows, I don't imagine there will be any problems, per se. The only issue is that the firewire port will not be used under FreeBSD because of current lack of support and I don't know about the tv-out - whether that is hardware based - i.e. requires no drivers or not. Neither are really of concern to me - I would enjoy use of the firewire port, but I'll wait... Thanks for your reply! I got one myself in the mean time, well today. It works fine (I have the 800 MHz with fan) as far as IDE, LAN (built in vr device) and graphics are concerned. I haven't tested TV-out, Audio or USB. The Board boots from everything, if the options in the CMOS are anything to go by. From CDROM (4.1) it did, and also from an old harddisk with 4.4 stable on it, it ran immediately with generic kernel. There is no floppy connector. But what can one expect for approx. $125? Including everything, CPU (VIA Centauer 800 MHz), LAN, Audio, TV-out. All needed additionally is RAM and some bootmedium. And a case, which I haven't found yet, one that I like and isn't too expensive, relatively. Accepts up to 1 GB of RAM (PC 100/133). So really a nice thing for a cheap little webserver/nameserver that runs everything in memory? Oh, I didn't see firewire on mine. May be my stupidity. I have never used it before. Lots of info at http://www.mini-itx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
VIA EPIA ITX MoBo
Does anyone have success with FreeBSD (and which branch?) on either of the two very small (17 * 17 cm) motherboards with integrated CPU, LAN, audio, graphics, shown on the URL below? http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=2 Did everything run? What did, if not all components? Thanks in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Open Relay Blocks
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, at 11:02 [=GMT-0500], Scott Pilz wrote: While I'm on the subject of blacklists, what do you folks run for spam stops? ordb.org works fine. I send a custom reject message, referring to a web page, and nobody even looks at it, let alone complain that they were blocked. This convinces me, that I only block spammers. The website tells you how to use it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MX list for points back to
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, at 14:18 [=GMT-0700], Gary D Kline wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 01:49:09PM -0700, Dave Young wrote: your mail server doesn't know what domain(s) it's supposed to accept mail for, but the MX record says it's the one. Look at /etc/mail/local-host-names or the like... No joy. I already had localhost tao in the /local-host-names file. What does wrk is reinstalling my former version of sendmail.cf. Have a look at the differences between the two sendmail.cf files? Perhaps something at this Cwlocalhost # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email Fw-o /etc/mail/local-host-names Another name for the file (sendmail.cw)? Another location (/etc or /etc/mail)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
