From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 0:55:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9BF37B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:55:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D696BE3; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:55:10 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission To: Bill Moran Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:55:10 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com> In-Reply-To: <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01011523551000.02838@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the same problem. I found that blocking non routeable IP's on my external interface cured it. 192.168.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12 10.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 Hope this helps... On Monday 15 January 2001 19:00, you 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) > > Is this indicative of any type of problem, misconfig? > > TIA, > Bill > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message