Upgrading 5.4 to 6 or 7

2008-03-03 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Hi all. I have an old FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 and was wondering if anyone has any opinion whether I should do a binary upgrade to 6.3 from CD or do a csup and makeworld? May I run into any difficulties in the future depending on which way I go? Or is it perhaps possible to go direct to 7.0?

Re: Also seeing 2 x quad-core system slower that 2 x dual core

2007-12-07 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Claus Guttesen wrote: could either replace my 10K rpm drives (in raid 1+0) with 15K ditto which would require a downtime which we could not afford at this tim I have several times successfully upgraded mirrored volumes with new disks without any downtime at all. Just change one disk, let the m

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is the most common interaction you have with it? Portupgrade a few times a mont

Lots of tcp in alias.log

2007-11-20 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Hi all. I have a problem with natd, I think. I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 as a router/proxy at home. Sometimes (weeks apart) I've noticed that it's quite impossible to surf. Connections timeout. A continuous ping from the router to an outside address reveals a packet loss of more than 50%. After some

Re: BIND 9.3.1 - How to get rid of AAAA querys?

2007-09-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Mark Andrews wrote: When looking in the querylog for BIND 9.3.1 running on FreeBSD 5.4, almost every other log entry specifies an query. The only client is localhost. I see no reason right now to have BIND wasting resources on IPv6 requests, so I added named_flags="-4" to rc.conf and re

BIND 9.3.1 - How to get rid of AAAA querys?

2007-09-12 Thread Andreas Pettersson
When looking in the querylog for BIND 9.3.1 running on FreeBSD 5.4, almost every other log entry specifies an query. The only client is localhost. I see no reason right now to have BIND wasting resources on IPv6 requests, so I added named_flags="-4" to rc.conf and restarted named. Sockst