From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 10:52:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4101937B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f63.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0682843E77 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:52:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dubbified@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:52:55 -0800 Received: from 207.46.137.8 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:52:54 GMT X-Originating-IP: [207.46.137.8] From: "C KH" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't connect to DNS servers -- Firewall prob? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:52:54 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2002 18:52:55.0824 (UTC) FILETIME=[647AD900:01C27F7C] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have 2 computers on a network -- one freebsd 4.7 and one slackware linux. The slackware linux box is able to connect to the DNS servers no problem, so I know it's not a problem with my ISP. My FreeBSD 4.7 box is unable to contact either primary or secondary nameservers. I have explicitly added these rules to my /etc/rc.firewall: $fwcmd add allow udp from 66.135.144.2 53 to $oip $fwcmd add allow udp from 66.135.128.68 53 to $oip $fwcmd add allow tcp from 66.135.144.2 53 to $oip $fwcmd add allow tcp from 66.135.128.68 53 to $oip (where $oip is my external IP address). Another possibly related thing is that on bootup, my server hangs indefinitely as the initializing "hostname" part. I need to hard break it with CTRL+C to continue bootup. Any ideas? I don't know how to tell if this is a larger problem with my server configuration or somethign to do with a firewall rule. Suggestions appreciated. _________________________________________________________________ Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message