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2009-10-23 Thread Only Friends Punam
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packet filter keep state doesn't

2009-10-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have a setup like this: LAN SRV CLIENT --- FBSD --- GW/DSL Internet Now, I'd like my client to connect to the DSL box to manage it, so I have create the following rules in my pf.conf: pass in log quick on $FBSD_LAN inet proto tcp from CLIENT to GW

DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread DAve
Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a CNAME. The issue I run into lately with some domains is that a client has a website with a industry host such as frank.relator.com and he wants to have DNS point

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
DAve wrote: Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a CNAME. The issue I run into lately with some domains is that a client has a website with a industry host such as frank.relator.com and he wants to have

FW: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS Question Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a CNAME. The issue I run into

Re: FW: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread krad
2009/10/23 Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS Question Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread DAve
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS Question Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a

Re: FW: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: krad kra...@googlemail.com Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:40 +0100 2009/10/23 Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com To:

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Len Conrad
All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as this. example.com CNAME otherdomain.com www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com I was taught this was not good form worse, it's illegal. , but

looking for /usr/ports/x11-driver, not /usr/ports/x11-drivers

2009-10-23 Thread Henry Olyer
I'm trying to X (re)configure a CQ60, which is not so trivial to do... Kenneth CF once wrote: 2) Install the nvidia-driver. # cd /usr/ports/x11-driver/nvidia-driver # make install clean (I built with options FREEBSD_AGP checked, ACPI checked, LINUX unchecked). And this was not a typo.

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-23 Thread Gareth Brown
PJ wrote: I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is already a disk on the

FW: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:17:48 +0200 From: lcon...@go2france.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS Question All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as this.

RE: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Len Conrad
All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as this. example.com CNAME otherdomain.com www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com I was taught this was not good form worse, it's illegal. how

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: worse, it's illegal. how is this illegal? if you are residing your domain on a hosting service, this makes sense to me. Granted its bad form and should have an A record to the host for the main domain record, but if i had control

RE: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
how is this illegal? CNAME rule: a node with a CNAME cannot contain any other records. for the node domain.tld: domain.tld. soa ... domain.tld. ns ... domain.tld. cname otherdomain.tld. this node has a CNAME and other data, so it's illegal, no matter what you want to do, or

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: worse, it's illegal. how is this illegal? if you are residing your domain on a hosting service, this makes sense to me. Granted its bad form and should have an A record to the host for the main domain record, but

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: You aren't supposed to use CNAMES for anything found in other RR's; in particular, you should always use an A record with the hostnames used for nameservers (ie, have an NS record), because you are supposed to be using the canonical name

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread xSAPPYx
Also, MX needs to resolve to an A, not a CNAME.. If you are using mail on all these domains, use A records On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com wrote: how is this illegal? CNAME rule: a node with a CNAME cannot contain any other records. for the node

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:20:20PM -0800, Henrik Hudson wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: I'm experiencing frequent crashes on my soekris net4801 home router for some months now, and I'm wondering if it could be some kind of pf-related bug similar to this on OpenBSD:

Does hybernate/wakeup work?

2009-10-23 Thread Yuri
I tried to make system hybernate with 'acpiconf -s4' on my laptop. It quickly turned off, but when I press the power button it boots like no hybernate and begins to check disks. What can be wrong? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-23 Thread Kalle Møller
Afaik the problem with fillling the router with torrent traffic as opposed to a single host, is that the the many connections to the many host fill up the (yes and this i don't know so I'll just say router). So Its not the torrent traffic itself.. its that you have a lot of packets going a million

installation

2009-10-23 Thread levent basar
hi freebsd is one of the good ones but its hard to install why dont you make the installation user friendly like pc bsd and also there are so many ati graphic card users can you add some new ati drives to new freebsd ? ___

Re: Does hybernate/wakeup work?

2009-10-23 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/23/09, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I tried to make system hybernate with 'acpiconf -s4' on my laptop. It quickly turned off, but when I press the power button it boots like no hybernate and begins to check disks. What can be wrong? OS S4 is not implemented, but BIOS S4 is possible on

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:33:07 -0700 xSAPPYx xsap...@gmail.com wrote: Also, MX needs to resolve to an A, not a CNAME.. If you are using mail on all these domains, use A records You can use the domains for mail provided that that they share MX servers, if example.com has a CNAME pointing to

boot0cfg, how to use -m option

2009-10-23 Thread Sandra Kachelmann
I installed the FreeBSD boot loader and have now the following options: F1 Win F2 Win F3 FreeBSD F4 FreeBSD F6 PXE Now I wan't to enable only partition 1 and 3 and PXE (F1, F3, F6). The manpage of boot0cfg says: -m mask Specify slices to be enabled/disabled, where mask is an integer

freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!? what can be the reason? it'a brand new install of freebsd 7.2

cpdup always copying files even if they are the same [but diff user]

2009-10-23 Thread Peter
iH, If the src and dst files are owned by different users, cpdup copies the file even if it the same. Copying from root - user it always copies the file Copying from user - user it notices that the file has not changed. Copying form user - user1 it always copies the file newserv:$ls -lh cpdup.*

Re: boot0cfg, how to use -m option

2009-10-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: I installed the FreeBSD boot loader and have now the following options: F1 Win F2 Win F3 FreeBSD F4 FreeBSD F6 PXE Now I wan't to enable only partition 1 and 3 and PXE (F1, F3, F6). The manpage of boot0cfg says: -m mask Specify slices

Re: cpdup always copying files even if they are the same [but diff user]

2009-10-23 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Peter wrote: If the src and dst files are owned by different users, cpdup copies the file even if it the same. Copying from root - user it always copies the file Copying from user - user it notices that the file has not changed. Copying form user - user1 it always copies

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!?

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
thanks adam. Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, kalin m ka...@el.net mailto:ka...@el.net wrote: hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
not really... i checked. many times. even for num loc. which doesn't matter... amnesiac is the name freebsd uses when no hostname is set. in this Amnesiac is the release name i think... man msk many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere now... the

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread James Phillips
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:46:03 -0500 From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: freebsd forgets root password To: kalin m ka...@el.net Cc: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID:     6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1...@mail.gmail.com

Re: installation

2009-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:10:49 +0100, levent basar eagleu...@hotmail.com wrote: hi freebsd is one of the good ones but its hard to install It's not hard to install. Just follow the instructions on screen. Because FreeBSD isn't restricted to a particular field of use (such as most other

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:19 -0400, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: man msk many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere If you have if_msk_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, it should. A message for dmesg is issued at the moment the driver is loaded

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:31 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, it may be *almost* as likely ;) Entry level? Ha! All modern keyboards... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:19 -0400, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: man msk many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere If you have if_msk_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, it should. A message for dmesg is

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:31 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, it may be *almost* as likely ;) Entry level? Ha! All modern keyboards... :-) actually the one i'm using was

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kalin m wrote: hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!? what can be the reason? Can you clarify a bit?