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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:41:52 -0800
From:      "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To:        "Bill Moran" <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: natd & failed to write packet back
Message-ID:  <001b01c07fd2$d9dd69c0$6100000a@vladsempire.net>
References:  <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:00 PM
Subject: natd & failed to write packet back


> 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?
>

I don't know the answers to any of your questions, but perhaps starting natd
with the -v switch will give you a clue as to what is going on.

Josh


> TIA,
> Bill




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