Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:40:39 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Message-ID: <20010115234039.L97980@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> In-Reply-To: <E14IQZ0-0005bR-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:29:54AM %2B0000 References: <E14IQZ0-0005bR-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:29:54AM +0000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:00:20PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > A proxy/firewall/nat box I recently set up is constantly spewing out an > > > error from natd: > > > failed to write packet back [host is down] > > > > > > What exactly is happening here? This is pretty ambiguous, I mean - what > > > host? It seems to indicate that a machine that was using natd went > > > offline before the communication completed, but it's occurring > > > constantly (I see the message a few times a minute at times) > > > > It means a packet that was processed by natd(8) is dropped by a later > > rule in the firewall. > > > > > Is this indicative of any type of problem, misconfig? > > > > It could be if the packet should not be dropped. > > In a similar vain, what does the above message indicate but accompanied > by a "permission denied" as the reason ? Doh! Thanks for catching that. I described what 'permission denied' means. When it says 'host is down,' well... it means that the host the packet is destined for is down. It must be a host on the local network to get that message. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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