configuring a FreeBSD box to use a IPv6 DNS server as it's resolver?

Hi, How can I configure a FreeBSD box to use a IPv6 DNS server as it's resolver? I mean, if I put in /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 3ffe:1ce1:2:0:200::1 And try to use dig to resolve some domain I have in that DNS server, it seems that the IPv6 address is not recognized and dig tries the to use

Sendmail 8.12.6 install

Have been learning FreeBSD since version 2.2.6, not a newbie but not an expert. Have been able to install and upgrade software and OS from source and ports previously OS version: 4.4 Release Sendmail: 8.11.6 I have learning Sendmail for about a year using 8..11.6. Had no problems

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:28:02AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >I was at a local installfext yesterday > >(http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were > >interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of econo

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I was at a local installfext yesterday > (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were > interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or > reliability. I'm currently about to finish the m

ipfw2 and natd

Didn't get an answer for this. Is it because it's supposed to be asked in freebsd-current? I've found that natd with ipfw2 breaks my simple ipfw rules in which state information is kept for new outgoing tcp packets: with 0,1.. as example rule numbers. 0 divert natd all from any to any via tun0 1

HTTP server on internal network

Hello, I want to run HTTP and FTP servers on internal network, and I want that they (servers) can be visible from internet. How I must to configure my router to get this result. for example I want to run HTTP server on 192.168.110.100 and FTP server on 192.168.110.101 internet<-->MyRouter(freebsd

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

At Sun, 8 Dec 2002 it looks like Greg 'groggy' Lehey composed: > If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision > depending on the amount of feedback I get. Yes, I'd be very interested :) -- |<--"Word-Wrap-At-72-Please"-->| Bill School

apm

Hi, Sleep mode works when I manually do apm -z or equivalently zzz. The problem is it is not automatically invoked when the computer is idol for 20 mins. which I have set my bios for. dmesg gives: apm0: on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 so the device is being detecte

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

At 12:28 AM -0500 12/8/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get. There's at least two cases, right? diskless booting off something like a custo

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourt

could someone help me with this?

hey everyone, just a quick question. I want to know if anyone out there still runs (or knows how to run) foxpro 2.6. I heard that it can be installed on BSD, and have searched the archives. I have seen some mention but they are all extremely dated. Does foxpro 2.6 still work with 4.7? Or for

Toshiba Satellite won't boot 5.0

I'm not sure if this should go to questions, current or mobile, but have often heard that if you're not sure, start with questions. Firstly, I should state that I don't know enough about the O/S to really be playing with CURRENT--I tried it recently on a whim, and it worked without much trouble, s

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of "The Complet

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I was at a local installfext yesterday > (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were > interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or > reliability. I'm currently about to finish the m

Re: need help setting up a transparent proxy

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:50:41PM -0600, Scott A. Moberly wrote: > > I am trying to set up a transparent squid proxy with ipfw. I am > > using FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (current as of today), version 2.5_1 of > > squid. I have read the relevant information on the squid Web site > > and searched the Fr

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

On Saturday, 7 December 2002 at 20:47:29 -0600, Len Conrad wrote: > >> I was at a local installfext yesterday >> (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were >> interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or >> reliability. I'm currently about to finish t

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wonderin

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wonder

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I was at a local installfext yesterday > (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were > interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or > reliability. I'm currently about to finish the m

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of "The Complete

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I was at a local installfext yesterday > (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were > interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy > or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the

Interest in diskless booting?

I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wonderin

Re: Make Installworld problem

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 07:58:41PM -0500, Anthony Abby wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 18:39, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Anthony Abby wrote: > > > I loaded FreebSD 4.7 last night and installed cvsup this morning. > > > Cvsupped -current and ran buildworld wit

Re: Make Installworld problem

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 18:39, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Anthony Abby wrote: > > I loaded FreebSD 4.7 last night and installed cvsup this morning. > > Cvsupped -current and ran buildworld without problem, however when I > > attempt to run 'make installworld' I

Re: Squid & transparent proxy: fixed

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:34:34AM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: > I'm trying to set squid up as a transparent proxy. I'm able to > do everything except the transparent part. If I point a web > browser at squid, everything works fine. But it won't work > transparently. Oh, never mind. I had the DIVERT

Re: Mail resending

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:45:22PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > One of our system accounts had all its mail blocked and there now are > over 500 emails in dead.letter that need to be resent. Is there a way > to send them (either from dead.letter or from separate files) without > having to do eac

Re: Make Installworld problem

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Anthony Abby wrote: > > I loaded FreebSD 4.7 last night and installed cvsup this morning. > > Cvsupped -current and ran buildworld without problem, however when I > > attempt to run 'make ins

Re: Make Installworld problem

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Anthony Abby wrote: > I loaded FreebSD 4.7 last night and installed cvsup this morning. > Cvsupped -current and ran buildworld without problem, however when I > attempt to run 'make installworld' I get the follow error. What does > this mean exactly? It

Re: new ethernetcard

dick hoogendijk wrote: When installing fbsd4.7 I had one ethernetcard in my machine. Now I want to put in another. In which file can I control the name and ip of this new card for booting. I looked into loader.conf and rc.conf but can't find how the card is checked or controled. So, which file do

new ethernetcard

When installing fbsd4.7 I had one ethernetcard in my machine. Now I want to put in another. In which file can I control the name and ip of this new card for booting. I looked into loader.conf and rc.conf but can't find how the card is checked or controled. So, which file do I need to update after

Re: blender, libGL.so.14 and libGLU.so.14

On 2002-12-06-20-14-30 Geury Peralta wrote: >I installed blender. all the dependency are installed aswell, yet I am >still missing libGL.so.14 and libGLU.so.14. Can any one help? Running >Freeb4.7. .so.14 were used with XFree86-3 and Mesa3 i think. _if_ you are using XFree86-4, please add XFR

Cyclades TS console server

Is anyone using a Cyclades TS-series console server on their FreeBSD boxes? Having some difficulty getting mine going, but not sure which end the problem is on. Do you need to enable ttyd1 in /etc/ttys as well as recompiling the kernel and editing boot.config? Any pointers would be appreciated.

Re: need help setting up a transparent proxy

> I am trying to set up a transparent squid proxy with ipfw. I am using > FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (current as of today), version 2.5_1 of squid. I > have read the relevant information on the squid Web site and searched > the FreeBSD mail archive. I am pretty sure I have everything set up > right but

Mail resending

One of our system accounts had all its mail blocked and there now are over 500 emails in dead.letter that need to be resent. Is there a way to send them (either from dead.letter or from separate files) without having to do each one individually? I haven't been able to find any way using mail

re-routing PC speaker throught the sound card

Dear Net, is it possible to re-route system beep through the sound card instead of built-in speaker? The motherboards's BIOS (Asus P4B533) doesn't allow to do that, and I could probably achieve this by hard-wiring speaker pins on the motherboard to the input of the sound card, but it would be ni

Re: buildworld fail

On Saturday 07 December 2002 05:40 am, John Mills wrote: > Kent, all - > > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: > > Just remember that a signal 11 in a compile is usually your > > hardware telling you something is wrong. If it dies at the same > > spot, it can be options or whatever. If you use

Re: Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box?

Rick Hamell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recall seeing an article where Walmart was loading Lindows on > their machines... is that still happening? I don't know about that, but from http://www.lycoris.com/ : Now you can buy pre-installed Desktop/LX Certified PCs from WalMar

Re: NFS - what troubles to expect ?

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Josh Brooks wrote: > > Helol, > > I have used NFS on sun/solaris systems for many years, and the one big > headache that comes to mind is how, if the server is down, and the client > has an automount on boot, the client will hang forever (basically forever) > trying to mount fr

Re: Silly cvsup question.

mike wrote: Hello. i use cvsup to backup certain critical folders on the machine labs, to the machine labs2 automatically every night. My question is this. If i add new stuff to say, /home/mike (or wherever) then that gets mirrored at night and everything does its job as i want it to. However, if

Athlon motherboard for 5.0?

I'd incorrectly posted this to -current earlier today, and was advised to repost here. However, as I'm not subscribed, I'd appreciate any responses CC'd to my address. :-) I'm running 5.0-DP2 on an Asus motherboard with the Apollo KT133 chipset. The chipset is notoriously buggy, according to

Re: Mail server howto question

On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 10:48 PM, Lord Raiden wrote: 1st, I need to build a mail server that does both pop and smtp. 2nd, I need that server to be able to do pop before smtp authentication for relaying. Anyone got a good tutorial on how to do that and how to setup the server t

Re: CAD software and BSD (free BSD , open BSD or netBSD , etc. )

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Pascal Pype wrote: > Hello , [...] > Greetings , Pype Pascal. hi, have a look at your clock - you're 2 years back! -Georg -- Georg Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: slightly OT (maybe) - calling all network detectives . . .

On 12/07/02 06:04 PM, Per olof Ljungmark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > So does anyone have any ideas how to find out *where* port 80 is being > > blocked? Could it be the modem? I had to configure things thru an NT > > box before I set up the FreeBSD box, but I removed all the DSL stuff >

need help setting up a transparent proxy

I am trying to set up a transparent squid proxy with ipfw. I am using FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (current as of today), version 2.5_1 of squid. I have read the relevant information on the squid Web site and searched the FreeBSD mail archive. I am pretty sure I have everything set up right but it just do

Web Designer

Merry Christmas from Meridan Design 1-207-760-8112 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My name is Cobby Drost. I'm a freelance Web Designer. I was wondering if you had any work available in your firm, company or personal interest for a work at home developer. I develop professional, att

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (12.07.2002 @ 0332 PST): Dima Fadeyev said, in 0.3K: << > Hi, List. > I'm new to FreeBSD and was just wondering what are the major differences between >FreeBSD and Linux. In what fields FreeBSD actually does a better job? >> end of "FreeBSD vs. Li

Silly cvsup question.

Hello. i use cvsup to backup certain critical folders on the machine labs, to the machine labs2 automatically every night. My question is this. If i add new stuff to say, /home/mike (or wherever) then that gets mirrored at night and everything does its job as i want it to. However, if i DELETE some

got Cygwin/XFree86 installed.. next step to get a remote x display?

heh i actually started trying things out and i already can run apps from my fbsd box and get them displayed on cygwin/xf86 server.. but without the window manager :\ (did it with ssh -X) What should I do in order to view the remote display here on my win2k box properly, with KDE running, my backgr

Re: Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box?

At 2002-12-07T07:15:59Z, "Mark-Nathaniel Weisman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes Rick, Wal-Mart uses a modified version of Lindows for their internal > operations, but does not offer it for sale to their customers. It was > supposed to go public with sales Q4 of 2002, however as of yet no go.

Compaq NC7781 PCI-X Gigabit NICs

anny what knowes if its suported on 4.7 releas regards Leo To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Make Installworld problem

I loaded FreebSD 4.7 last night and installed cvsup this morning. Cvsupped -current and ran buildworld without problem, however when I attempt to run 'make installworld' I get the follow error. What does this mean exactly? Thanks Anthony Running test variables PASS: Test variables detected no

CAD software and BSD (free BSD , open BSD or netBSD , etc. )

Hello , This remark must be placed within the context of an announcement of Parametric Technologies Corporation to port their "Pro Engineer" to Linux and the comments posted by several people at Slashdot. This announcement has been posted by chrisd on Monday June 10, @06:21PM from the catia-we're-

Re: can't open /dev/ad7s1e: Device not configured

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:24:39 -0600, Bill McMilleon wrote: > >I am not a FreeBSD expert by any means, but I amd getting this >unfortunate error with a Maxtor 160g ATA/133 drive I have hooked >up to a Promise Ultra 133 controller. The system was fine and >ran on FreeBSD 4.6.2 RELEASE, and I tried mo

Re: slightly OT (maybe) - calling all network detectives . . .

So does anyone have any ideas how to find out *where* port 80 is being blocked? Could it be the modem? I had to configure things thru an NT box before I set up the FreeBSD box, but I removed all the DSL stuff afterwards. Thanks in advance Lou What is the IP in question? To Unsubscribe: send

Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware?

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste David, > > Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: > > > If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k > > is on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this > > win2k? or

Re: slightly OT (maybe) - calling all network detectives . . .

Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So does anyone have any ideas how to find out *where* port 80 is being > blocked? Could it be the modem? I had to configure things thru an NT > box before I set up the FreeBSD box, but I removed all the DSL stuff > afterwards. Traceroute on TCP port 8

Re: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O

Hugo Saro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I changed my kern.securelevel from -1 to 1 about two > days ago, so i'm assuming thats the source of the > problem.. > > Is there a way to run the server with securelevel=1 ? Have you read the discussion in the FAQ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885

slightly OT (maybe) - calling all network detectives . . .

Hey all. A minor network problem here, sorry if this is the wrong list. I'm running FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE, with Apache-ModSSL. My network connection is Verizon DSL using PPP. The modem is a Westell WireSpeed. Thanks to some help on this list a while back, everything seems to be working correctly.

Re: custom version of FreeBSD

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:34:23AM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > > Is it possible to create a custom version of FreeBSD? Say I want a web > > server installation. Can I create a custom version of FreeBSD that will > > create a web server for you when you d

Re: ftp server problem

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:47:23AM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > I run a FreeBSD FTP server. For some reason it works only some of the > time. Here is what happens: > > 1. I can log into the FTP server from any where > 2. I can transfer files from any where > 3. I can CD into any

Re: ftp server problem

Does the ls command get sent, but no reply? If nothing comes back then it sounds like a passive FTP problem... There is alot written about this, google a bit, and you will find many solutions. Andrew - Original Message - From: "Damien Hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

Re: buildworld fail

Kent, all - On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: > Just remember that a signal 11 in a compile is usually your hardware > telling you something is wrong. If it dies at the same spot, it can > be options or whatever. If you use strange options, you have to try > them first but still remember

ncurses based front-end for ports-collection?

Hello *, does anyone know, if there's a graphical front-end (ncurses based) for the ports-collection? If not I'm looking forward to develop one. Following requirements should be supplied: - different views for installed/available/upgradeable ports - add/remove/upgrade/search functio

ftp server problem

I think this is more of a networking question then a FreeBSD question but I thought I would ask it here in the hopes that someone will have an answer. I run a FreeBSD FTP server. For some reason it works only some of the time. Here is what happens: 1. I can log into the FTP server from an

Re: FTP server problem

On 2002.12.07 13:47 Damien Hull wrote: > I run a FreeBSD FTP server. For some reason it works only some of > the > time. Here is what happens: > > 1. I can log into the FTP server from any where > 2. I can transfer files from any where > 3. I can CD into any directory I want >

hard disk problem.

h'llo all I've got 2 disks on my primary controller, an 80GB (master) and an 60GB (slave)... (both these selected from CS - cable select) i've installed linux on the first partition of the master while the slave had already some ms-windows things installed. when trying to install freebsd 4.6 OR 4.

Re: custom version of FreeBSD

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:34:23AM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > Is it possible to create a custom version of FreeBSD? Say I want a web > server installation. Can I create a custom version of FreeBSD that will > create a web server for you when you do the installation? It should auto > install apache

custom version of FreeBSD

Is it possible to create a custom version of FreeBSD? Say I want a web server installation. Can I create a custom version of FreeBSD that will create a web server for you when you do the installation? It should auto install apache etc.. All I should have to do is configure the drive and network set

Re: NFS - what troubles to expect ?

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:54:35PM -0800, Josh Brooks wrote: > > Helol, > > I have used NFS on sun/solaris systems for many years, and the one big > headache that comes to mind is how, if the server is down, and the client > has an automount on boot, the client will hang forever (basically foreve

FreeBSD vs. Linux

Hi, List. I'm new to FreeBSD and was just wondering what are the major differences between FreeBSD and Linux. In what fields FreeBSD actually does a better job? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware?

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste David, > > Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: > > > If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k is > > on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this > > win2k? or

Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware?

Dear/Beste David, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: > If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k is > on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this > win2k? or does the partition have to be FAT or FAT32? > Dave > To Unsubscrib

IPFW+NAT

Hi List Has anyone come across a recent ( not old please ) Howto/Info/Manual/Example on using IPFW _dynamic_ rules function with NAT ? If so, please could you point me in the right direction. Thanks. Kind Regards, Nelis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd

Re: ATA errors

Vladislav V. Zhuk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:34:09AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> This is almost always the sign of a bad cable, but it can also be >> the logic board on the drive dying (though much rarer). Check your >> cables. Better yet, go to your local hardware store and buy a new

Squid & transparent proxy

I'm trying to set squid up as a transparent proxy. I'm able to do everything except the transparent part. If I point a web browser at squid, everything works fine. But it won't work transparently. FreeBSD 4.4 squid-2.5_1 # ipfw l 00049 allow tcp from 192.168.0.1 to any 00050 divert 8668 ip fro