From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 22: 1:51 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 A3D2937B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A23B43E4A for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:01:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0L61iJY016237; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:01:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:01:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Zhang Weiwu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permission denied in ping? Message-ID: <20030121060143.GL49032@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 In the last episode (Jan 21), Zhang Weiwu said: > Today I found that I cannot connect to the lan. Logged as root, > pinging 127.0.0.1 returns: > > Ping 127.0.0.1: sendto: Permission denied > > And pinging whatever address returns the same error message. Check your ipfw rules; if ipfw blocks a packet being sent by the local system, the error gets passed backto the program. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message