From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 23 8:58: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nty.ch (www.nty.ch [194.38.74.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056EE14F8F for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 08:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ce@wks.ch) Received: from gamma.wks.ch (portmp027.worldcom.ch [195.119.116.27]) by nty.ch (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA12275; Sun, 23 May 1999 17:58:14 GMT Message-ID: <374826F7.41C67EA6@wks.ch> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 18:04:07 +0200 From: Claudio Eichenberger Organization: WKS Working Solutions GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw natd dynamic ip needs two tries to connect References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Claudio Eichenberger wrote: > > > We connect our Intranet 10.0.0.# via a FreeBSD 2.2.7 machine which makes > > ipfw, natd to an ISP by ppp which dynamically attributes us an IP at > > every call we make. Everything works fine. There's just this small > > problem. e.g. > > > > % telnet an.internet.host #ppp opens the line > > > > nothing happens, you either stop the telnet and start a new one > > > > % telnet an.internet.host ^C > > % telnet an.internet.host #now it works, the connection will be > > established > > Sounds like DNS problems. Check your firewall rules. > Thanks for your rapid answer - The problem exists equally while using an IP instead of a hostname - The problem exists whether we use our firewall rules, or the 'open' version :Claudio http://www.wks.ch/ > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message