Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:12:23 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: webmaster <webmaster@funkltd.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question Message-ID: <39A41407.5F7CB67D@wmptl.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008221936480.823-100000@generalhax.funkltd.com>
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webmaster wrote: > > <webmaster@funkltd.com> > > Hi, > > I have just installed freebsd in a new name server for us. I have > been using freeBSD for quite a few months here at the home office and > decided that it capabilities are just to great to be ignored at work. > > There is however, a strange network problem that I don't have here at > home and can't seem to find in the online docs or support. > > The freebsd DNS server we just put together cant seem to send or recieve > packets at all from outside its own network class. In particular, Its > address is 204.212.40.206. It can ping all the other computers in the > 204.212.40.* network, answer thier queries...etc. From outside that class > of addresses, no. Its not a problem with the upstream provider, that same > box ran as a dns server on linux, no problems. I think there is something > I am missing in subnet maybe, I don't know. I've been over it a thousnd > times. It has to talk to a BSDI server upstream to get out. > > Have any of you ever heard of this problem before, and if so, whats the > fix? > > Thanks for any info > > Sincerely, > > Russ Mummey > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message try this: route add default <ip address of that BSDi machine upstream> 1 You must instruct the machine as to which address it will need to use to get beyond it's own subnet (aka 'gateway of last resort'). If that above command fixes you up, you'll need to add 'defaultrouter="<same IP>" ' into your /etc/rc.conf file for it to remain after the next reboot. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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