what is going on??

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat Mar 25 04:16:26 UTC 2006


Jonathan Horne wrote:

>Thanks for the replies everyone.
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>It turned out to be partially ipv6, partially the ipfw on my pfsense
>firewall.  Ultimately, the hangup was in sendmail, unable to start.  Ipv6
>messages in the logevel 20 maillogs.
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>However, during all my troubles, I was always able to resolve
>ftp.freebsd.org (I don't think I mentioned that before), as well as I could
>ping it and any number of other hosts as I scratched my head for 3 hours.
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>Ultimately, I ended up compiling a new kernel anyway to enable SMP, and I
>just removed the ipv6 support while I was there.  That and disabling the
>userlan ftp-proxy application on my firewall, I was up and running this
>morning within a few hours of compiling.
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>So long fedora!
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>:D
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>jonathan
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Schuele
>Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:50 PM
>To: Jonathan Horne
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: what is going on??
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>Jonathan Horne wrote:
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>>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.
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>>however, when i get to first boot, the machine says:
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>>starting sshd.
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>>and hangs for a few minutes.  if i hit ctrl-c i see that sendmail is
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>having
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>>trouble starting.  i have a good DNS server listed, and the format of the
>>/etc/hosts file is correct.
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>>now im having trouble getting pkg_add -r to work, everything to
>>ftp.freebsd.org times out.
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>>im in a bad situation, as the server i took down hosts all my personal
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>email
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>>accoutns (i had to add gmail just to even try to read the lsits).
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>>can someone shed some light for me here??
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>My .02 cents:
>Double check your name resolution functionality.  Also, seems I had 
>trouble once upon a time with IPV6 causing similar issues as well.  But 
>that was quite some time ago.
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>>thanks
>>jonathan
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Could have just turned the firewall off I would think in /etc/rc.conf. 
Don't see why recompiling a kernel without ipv6 support was necessary as 
that shouldn't have been preventing network connections at all.
Good luck with FreeBSD :).
-Garrett


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