From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 12:11:55 2003 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 1D92537B405 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:11:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (mailhost1-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D68F43FBF for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:11:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbailey27@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net ([67.38.15.139]) by mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20030213201151.YBTS8853.mailhost.det2.ameritech.net@ameritech.net>; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:11:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3E4BFBDF.3040308@ameritech.net> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:11:11 -0500 From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network issue References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I'm guessing more than likely your DNS server is external to your internal LAN and you don't have an internal DNS to manage RFC1918 IPs. If this is the case, this is why pings will *seem* to fail. They are trying to look up your internal addresses (which will fail with an internet connection up fairly quickly) but hang because there is no connection via your ISP to a DNS server to respond "no, there is no PTR for that A". Get yourself an internal DNS and you should be ok Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message