Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:34:06 +0200 From: Nash <nash@home.se> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: natd ; Host is dowm ??? Message-ID: <39D880BE.F7499B19@home.se>
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Hi, My server is issuing an error message that has got me blowing my head off on!! ... natd[131]: failed to write packet back (Host is down) Does anyone know what "host" is meant here? The message comes up randomly and comes in very large occurrences. It really doesn't seem to be affecting anything as far as the connection speed is concerned; BUT IT SURE IS IRRITATING ME!!! It has been filling up my "/var/log/messages" file for the past few months, and I seriously considering writing a program just to prevent the message itself from showing up. I use natd to make my server into a router and have an internal network behind it. Also have a firewall, DNS, http-daemons, FTP-daemons on the same machine. I've tried removing any and/or all of these other daemons from the machine to see if it effects this message; but in vein. The only other thing I've though of is that, it seems like someone else also has an internal network in our subnet and is probably sending ARP-requests externally?!? I frankly don't understand this thing and would appreciate any suggestions whatsoever, and especially if someone can tell me how to find out "which/what" -host the error message is talking about? Thank you beforehand, N.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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