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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:06:24 -0600
From:      Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        "David B. Aas" <dave@ciminot.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FW: Need consulting help with v3.2 firewall
Message-ID:  <19990811190623.C1967@fisicc-ufm.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990811162620.15869E-100000@java.dpcsys.com>; from Dan Busarow on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 04:27:23PM -0700
References:  <000f01bee442$3cf646e0$0fc8a8c0@dave.ciminot.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990811162620.15869E-100000@java.dpcsys.com>

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On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 04:27:23PM -0700, Dan Busarow wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, David B. Aas wrote:
> > I cleaned up my rules, and set up the logging. That helped lots. My rules
> > had some problems with UDP from the internal net. I fixed those.
> > 
> > I set up a rule to allow all from any to any and ran my POP3 client on my
> > network workstations. It still does not work. I am thinking that it is
> > something to do with my DNS.
> > 
> > My console still gives me an error message "servername
> > popper[number]:(v2.53) unable to get canonical name of client, err=0"
> > 
> > Should I post my DNS settings? I have checked them over several times, and
> > don't see anything wrong. I had it set for a secondary DNS server, and I
> > changed it to a caching DNS server as a troubleshooting technique. I am
> > following the discussion in "The Complete FreeBSD".
> > 
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> You need to provide DNS, at least in-addr.arpa, for your internal
> hosts.
> 

definitely. You should provide forward DNS as well, at least for the
internal network.

regards,

-Oscar

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