From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 23:43:44 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 3B9F237B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f181.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F386743E77 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:43:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dubbified@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:43:42 -0800 Received: from 66.135.144.9 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:43:42 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.135.144.9] From: "C KH" To: simon1@simon1.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't connect to DNS servers -- Firewall prob? Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:43:42 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2002 07:43:42.0866 (UTC) FILETIME=[11DD6F20:01C27FE8] 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 >Okay, I think I follow your setup here. Have you tried "allow any from any" >-- just to see if it works? I'm wondering if it might not be another >setting causing the problem -- What's your gateway set to on the FreeBSD >box? Usually its the "defaultrouter" variable in rc.conf. Okay, i took your advice and added these lines to /etc/rc.firewall: # allow everything for debugging rules $fwcmd add allow all from any to any I reloaded the rules but still can't connect to the nameserver. So this indicates something else must be wrong i guess! I tried a simple ping to the IP address of the nameserver and am getting this: # ping 66.135.144.2 PING 66.135.144.2 (66.135.144.2): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: No route to host (i get this if I ping either nameserver IP). I looked at my /etc/rc.conf and there's only one line related to router or gateway: gateway_enable="YES" Is there supposed to be other parameters here? _________________________________________________________________ Unlimited Internet access for only $21.95/month.  Try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message