what is going on??

[Joseph Vella]

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.