Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:39:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Problem Accessing Internet via FreeBSD Gateway Message-ID: <199910130639.HAA00510@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:35:02 BST." <380249F6.429EA19A@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
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> Can anyone suggest what might be causing the network's FreeBSD gateway
> to prevent full acceses to the internet? The network comprises a number
> of Windows machines linked to a FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE box configured as a
> gateway.
>
> Browsers on the windows side can request a URL. If the domain is not
> recognised by the local DNS, a dial-out is initiated and the IP address
> retrieved. Named.run shows the correct IP address being returned to the
> client. The browser also shows the status message "Connecting to
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the correct IP address), but
> nothing happens and the request times out.
>
> How is it that the IP address is returned to the client, but web pages
> are not being served?
> No firewall has been implemented as yet, so that's not the problem, nor
> has ppp been configured to filter packets. Netscape running on the
> FreeBSD box has no trouble connecting to the net, nor with
> reading/sending mail...
>
> Any clues, anyone?
Are you running ppp with -alias ? Also, have you tried disabling
tcp_extensions (it's disabled by default in 3.2 though.... so that's
probably not the answer).
> Thanks for your help,
> Ric
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