From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 15: 1:42 2002 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 0A7F237B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6616943E75 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:01:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gACN1OTc017617; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:01:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:01:24 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: To: "Richardson, Martin" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Routing trouble... slow FTP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021113000044.I16813-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, at 09:51 [=GMT+1100], Richardson, Martin wrote: > I have a dial on demand server running FreeBSD 4.7. This also has wu-ftpd > running as well. I have noticed that whe trying to FTP to the box, it takes > a long time to connect (I usually have the modem switched off, but will dial > if I have left it on while trying to FTP into the box). I have noticed also > that Sendmail has trouble sending local mail (daily reports etc). These > problems dissappear when a the ppp link is up, or I have killed the ppp > process. I suspect these problems might be due to the routing table entries > made by ppp (add default HISADDR). netstat -r takes forever, unless the link > is up. When I do a "tcpdump -i tun0" I get 192.168.x.x traffic going to my > ISP's DNS servers. One wonders what there is in your /etc/resolv.conf > What would be the best way to fix this? use PPP's firewalling, or IPFW? or > is there a better way? > TIA, Martin > > > > 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