what is going on??

[Garrett Cooper]

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??
>
>thanks
>jonathan
>  
>
Have you tried pinging a machine in the outside world? It sounds like 
DNS/ARP isn't resolving properly, maybe or the DNS server you use is 
currently not working.
Also, for sshd, do you have the UseDNS option enabled? It seemed to 
affect client side stuff (ie client connecting to a server with UseDNS 
enabled), but maybe it's affecting your server =\...
-Garrett