Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:23:16 -0700 From: "V Foulk" <kaosent@kewd.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: IPFW and whois lookup Message-ID: <000401c4f4dd$953bcad0$68bbbbc0@kewdaeahnhd04i>
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Hello, I have recently setup IPFW on a test box, and found that (for the most part) it was pretty straight forward. Every rule and service on the box seems to work great, except for one problem I haven't been able to track down. Regardless of the settings, even when set to open as default with only the allow all from any to any rule, whois and hostname lookups fail. This problem prevented clamav from updating, and a whole slew of other minor issues that pop up in the logs. I was hoping someone may be able to point out something that I may have missed? When IPFW is enabled: When the service uses the local NS, a manual whois gives: whois: connect(): No route to host When the service uses the upstream NS, a manual whois gives: whois: com.whois-servers.net: hostname nor servname provided, or not known (NS as set in resolv.conf) The only way I can make the error 'go away' is to disable ipfw in rc.conf and reboot. I am certain that this is just a silly oversight on my part. The machine is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p13, please let me know if there is any other information I can provide that will be useful. Thank you very much, in advance, for the help. VF
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