From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 16:58:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (pm2a-s36.guate.net [200.12.57.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF6A15058 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:56:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA02304; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:06:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:06:24 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: Dan Busarow Cc: "David B. Aas" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Need consulting help with v3.2 firewall Message-ID: <19990811190623.C1967@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: <000f01bee442$3cf646e0$0fc8a8c0@dave.ciminot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Dan Busarow on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 04:27:23PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 04:27:23PM -0700, Dan Busarow wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, David B. Aas wrote: > > I cleaned up my rules, and set up the logging. That helped lots. My rules > > had some problems with UDP from the internal net. I fixed those. > > > > I set up a rule to allow all from any to any and ran my POP3 client on my > > network workstations. It still does not work. I am thinking that it is > > something to do with my DNS. > > > > My console still gives me an error message "servername > > popper[number]:(v2.53) unable to get canonical name of client, err=0" > > > > Should I post my DNS settings? I have checked them over several times, and > > don't see anything wrong. I had it set for a secondary DNS server, and I > > changed it to a caching DNS server as a troubleshooting technique. I am > > following the discussion in "The Complete FreeBSD". > > > > Am I missing something? > > You need to provide DNS, at least in-addr.arpa, for your internal > hosts. > definitely. You should provide forward DNS as well, at least for the internal network. regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message