From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 14:16:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1841337B69D for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0AMGJu69459; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:16:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NATD errors References: <01011009391300.67658@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Jan 2001 17:16:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: akbeech@anchoragerescue.org's message of "10 Jan 2001 19:39:38 +0100" Message-ID: <44itnnvyrw.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG akbeech@anchoragerescue.org (Beech Rintoul) writes: > I am running 4.2 on a gateway machine that is also doing public DNS. This box > is connected via static IP to a cable modem. The problem is with NATD, I'm > getting almost constant errors saying Failure to write back packet....host is > down. Aside from that everything is working properly. Is there any way to > disable that message, or reconfigure to stop it? That message means that *after* the packet has been NAT'd, an ipfw rule is blocking it. Look at your firewall rules and figure out why. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message