From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 22 14:13:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from geek.fidnet.com (geek.fidnet.com [205.216.200.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6582D15AD4 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yoonix@fidnet.com) Received: from localhost (yoonix@localhost) by geek.fidnet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA75931; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:14:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from yoonix@fidnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: geek.fidnet.com: yoonix owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:14:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Turpin To: Rhavenn StormWing Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ping Error Question In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990421222306.00794b50@mail.trlinks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org sounds like you have a firewall on. try loggin in as root, type ipfw list if you see a listing for deny ip any any type, ipfw add 0001 permit ip from any to any then, vi /etc/defaults/rc.conf set the firewall_type to open this is shooting from the hip. if i'm horribly wrong, don't blame me, just blame my 20 second thinking. -mark On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Rhavenn StormWing wrote: :>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:23:06 -0500 :>From: Rhavenn StormWing :>To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG :>Subject: Ping Error Question :> :>I just got pppd to work right and now when I try and ping :>anything(including the localhost) I get this error: :> :>ping: sendto: Permission denied (this is repeated over and over) :> :>I am running FreeBSD3.1 . I have my resolv.conf file set to my ISP's :>nameserver which I thought was about it :>to get IP address mapping. :> :>Could someone explain to me what that error message means and point me in :>the right direction to solving it? :> :> :>Thanks for any help in advance! :) :> :>The Rhavenn :> :> :> :> :> :>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :>with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message :> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message