From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 16:42:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D501D37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 82728 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2001 00:42:18 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by karon.sto.dynas.se with SMTP; 11 Jan 2001 00:42:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 532 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2001 00:42:18 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 11 Jan 2001 00:42:18 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0B0gFR22157; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:42:15 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200101110042.f0B0gFR22157@explorer.rsa.com> To: akbeech@anchoragerescue.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NATD errors Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <00a701c07b47$3137f860$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <01011012250700.67997@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >Thanks, but I'm getting 150+ per day of these errors. Cable support doesn't >have a clue. I'm wondering if anyone else has any ideas? This question comes up every now and then on the mailing lists, usually followed by more or less plasuble explanations. Try seaching the archives at for "failed to write packet back". One explanation I saw somehere was that these messages are due to DNS replies coming in, where the host sending the request is no longer around. If you just want to get rid of the message, you could always just comment out that line from the natd source and recompile. >On Wednesday 10 January 2001 11:52, Beech Rintoul wrote: >> > 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? [...] $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message