On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:01:36PM -0400, Yasir Malik wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm going to install NetBSD daily release of 2.0 by FTP.   In the
> configuration process I'm able to pick up an IP address, but I can't ping
> into our name server.  I get a message saying "Communication prohibited"
> and all the packets were lost.  I know our name server is functional and
> my network card is registered with the campus network.  Is this a problem
> with sysinst?

It may be that you can't ping the host due to packet filtering restrictions.
Try proceeding with the install anyway and see what happens.

Regards,
Chris