From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 1 01:54:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA26826 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 01:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (root@[194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26821 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 01:54:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11390; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:46:26 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35726A88.7338B96D@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 09:47:04 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: The International School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carroll Kong CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NATD, Intermittent Problems. References: <199805301244.IAA09403@eden-backend.rutgers.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Carroll Kong wrote: > > some mailing lists, it will say "thisemail@addr.com was not accept by > your SMTP Server, change the recipient name." Okay... I am a bit fuzzy > on natd... I thought it forwarded everything all fine and dandy. But I > can RECEIVE mail, but I cannot SEND mail from the other computers. What are you using as the SMTP server? Your gateway machine or the ISP? > gateway / router / caching DNS machine...) but I am uncertain why it > would need sendmail to forward the POP3 mail that eudora is sending > out? Eudora uses SMTP to send mail - it only uses POP3 to receive mail. > Second Problem.... one of the computers is trying to hook into > "battle.net" which requires a "6112 UDP" port. What I tried doing is, I think battle.net makes incoming connections to your computer using an IP address provided from your computer (I'm not completely sure about this, www.wingate.net forums are likely to have more details) - natd already knows about ftp/IRC which do this and adjust packets accordingly, but I doubt if it knows about battle.net. > I can think of a few potential problems. One... sendmail. Do I need > it? If all your email needs are served by using the ISP's mail server, no, not really. If their mail server is unreliable/slow, you might prefer to run your own. Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message