Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:30:47 +0100 From: "c a r s t e n" <carsten@realityblur.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: "freebsd questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The ongoing saga of getting DSL up and running... ping: sendto: Permission denied Message-ID: <E18jO7c-0002GF-00@mrelayng.kundenserver.de> In-Reply-To: <3E4BBA57.4070209@potentialtech.com>
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| As root, type "ipfw show" | If this lists rules, you may have inadvertently set yourself up | with a "deny all" firewall. [...] | If this is the case, I'd put in rc.conf: | firewall_enable="YES" | firewall_type="OPEN" | which is a quick fix for the issue. ah! i had no idea that the firewall could suddenly be running without my telling freebsd to start it up. or, i probably told it to start it up without realising, is more likely. | > does anyone have any ideas not related to firewalls or not being | > logged in as root? | | Well, if you don't like my other answer, you don't have to try it, | but I suggest it because the circumstance you describe seems to | indicate that as the cause. i do like your answer :) i just thought i had ruled it out. i do have a customised kernel, and it is likely that i have added it there, thinking that at some point i wanted to look into the technology. perhaps that is why it was running. anyway, it turns out that my other inept fiddlings mysteriouly resulted in that being the only problem, and i can now browse as well. thanks a lot for your help. now i just have to figure out why mozilla 1.3a (sometimes?) won't take keystrokes in the url entryfield, and in forms as well. c To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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