From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 23:58:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC3B14C0F for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA17942; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:58:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00510; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:39:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910130639.HAA00510@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Richard Morte Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Problem Accessing Internet via FreeBSD Gateway In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Morte of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:35:02 BST." <380249F6.429EA19A@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:39:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message