From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 17:34:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web2.sea.nwserv.com (web2.sea.nwserv.com [216.145.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D82637BFDE for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpk@nwserv.com) Received: from localhost (dpk@localhost) by web2.sea.nwserv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA06449; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpk@nwserv.com) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:34:30 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kirchner X-Sender: dpk@web2.sea.nwserv.com To: Martin Mactaggart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My telnet has been possed by a demon (I can't telnet to my FreeBSD machine anoymore) In-Reply-To: <20000709150812.9275.qmail@web4307.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Envelope-To: martinmact@yahoo.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Martin Mactaggart wrote: > Having said that, if my win2k machine is connected to the internet, > it seems to work (!?). The win2k machine is configured as the Gateway > and DNS of the FreeBSD machine (yes, I know that's backwards). I can > always ping back and forth with no packet loss, though... ^^^ I'd put my money on it being a problem with DNS timeouts. Try running bind on your FreeBSD box and have it handle the forward & reverse DNS for your LAN. -- David Kirchner, dpk@nwserv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message