From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 22 16:20:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [209.219.168.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B915314C22 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from korvus@tasam.com) Received: from korvus (207-172-64-163.s163.tnt17.brd.va.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.64.163]) by tasam.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA19862 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:17:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00c001be8d16$4c446420$f808fea9@korvus> From: "Korvus" To: References: Subject: Re: Ping Error Question Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:15:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i'm a newbie myself, but from what i've seen, i would have to guess that you don't have a write access to some device... but i may easily be wrong... > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message