what is going on??

[Jonathan Horne]

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??

thanks
jonathan