Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-02-01 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
never been so hard. Having to set environment variables every time I want to get the newest version of a program should not be the standard way to operate, I am sure it isn't. Thanks. On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: I used sysinstall to

Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
Oh, I forgot to mention that I had tried that. It downloaded the package but when I checked, pkg_check bind9-9.3.2 it said the package did not exist and pkg_check bind9-9.3.1 it gave me all the appropriate output. On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:08 PM, lars wrote: You could also try # pkg_add -r bi

Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
I used sysinstall to look for it: the chose configure->packages->ftp->main site->package selection->DNS in there I saw several versions of BIND but 9.3.1 was the newest. What am I doing wrong? I chose FTP to try to get the most up to date infowhat happened? I see 9.3.2 on Fresh ports, wh

Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a computer I want to use to test BIND. The newest release is 9.3.2, but the one installed with FreeBSD 6.0 is 9.3.1. Since according to the ISC's website there are a few bugs in 9.3.1, I decided to upgrade. I then looked over the ports and found versions going

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
setting. Oh and check the LED's on your ethernet interface and router and hub/switches to be sure you didn't knock a cable loose. -Derek At 12:50 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my /etc/rc.conf. On Jan 20, 200

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my /etc/rc.conf. On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Check your /etc/rc.conf for this line: defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" add it and reboot if it is missing -Derek At 12:26 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gur

cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
Yesterday I placed an HD with Freebsd 5.3 release in a Dell Dimension L800CXE. It booted properly. ( since it's running a generic kernel with only a name change) However I could not ping anything inside or outside the LAN. Ex: ping google.com ping: cannot resolve google.com: Hostname lookup fa

Fwd: Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-19 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
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Re: IPF firewalling

2005-01-17 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
correction, I meant pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 53 keep state frags pass out quick on rl0 proto udp from any to any port = 53 keep state frags I did it in kind of a hurry. On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: If you compiled you kernel, and added

Re: IPF firewalling

2005-01-17 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
If you compiled you kernel, and added options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK, then you need to explicitly allow each service to leave the interface, as well as come in thru the interface. For example add: pass in quick proto tcp from any to any port = 53 keep state keep keep state frags pass in quick p

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
OK we get it you don't like freeBSD. Now shut up and quit wasting everyones bandwidth On Jan 13, 2005, at 7:40 PM, Boris Spirialitious wrote: Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing me. Boris Jerry McAllist

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes

2005-01-04 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
This sounds very interesting. But I am not sure I understand very well what exactly is the task you were trying to accomplish. Are you controlling iTunes (and all it's music library) on your Mac from a FreeBSD box somewhere on the net, and playing it on the FreeBSD box? Because that sounds

FreeBSD 5.3 won't compile kernel

2004-12-29 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
I used to have FreeBSD on two different boxes, each with a custom kernel. Then I installed from scratch FreeBSD 5.3 on both boxes and it runs well. However both show compile errors when i try to make a custom kernel. Both show the same error. I have even tried to use rename the file /usr/src/sy