what is going on??

[Eric Schuele]

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??

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.

> 
> thanks
> jonathan
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Regards,
Eric