Freezes on connect

[Katie Lefevre]

Title: Freezes on connect

Version: 1_0_3

OS: Mac OSX 10.6.8

Java Version: 1.6.0_51

Description of Problem:

Hello dear helpful lords and ladies,

I'm trying to connect to a friend's tekkit server (or really any tekkit server) and having problems. If I try to connect to his, specifying the port or not, I get a connection timeout, but I thought I'd test it so I started my own and tried to connect to localhost, at which point I briefly connect, am disconnected, and then tekkit/technic launcher freezes pretty hard. For a while I was getting the same freeze no matter what I did: his address, localhost, or just a random string of numbers, I didn't get any errors it would just freeze. I've reset tekkit, I've moved tekkit folders, I've replaced technic, and have fully updated java (I'm on a 10.6 mac and so cant get java 7). Hmmm it seems Tekkit Classic is also freezing. But Vanilla Minecraft is working fine through the Technic launcher. Any help would be appreciated.

p.s. why does it only allow me to say I'm running tekkit 1_0_3?

Error Messages:

none

Error Log:

lost connection: disconnect.genericReason

[Katie Lefevre]

So I probably should've checked this first but it straight up wont play on singleplayer either. Gets stuck creating the world.

[Katie Lefevre]

I followed the advice on someone else's bug report and activated the "Increase PermGen Size" option, so now single player is working but I still cant connect to a server.