From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 19:45:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA05821 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:45:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from home.ifx.net (home.ifx.net [206.25.218.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA05816 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:45:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jemstone@ifx.net) Received: from ip56.ifx.net (ip56.ifx.net [206.25.218.56]) by home.ifx.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA01799; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 22:21:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by ip56.ifx.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BCEB05.27A4B200@ip56.ifx.net>; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 22:41:43 -0500 Message-ID: <01BCEB05.27A4B200@ip56.ifx.net> From: "James E. Marker" To: "'Matthew D. Fuller'" , Doug White Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: I can ping but nothing else? Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 22:41:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stupid error on my part. I lost my /etc/hosts file somewhere. I recreated it and everything is fine now. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew D. Fuller [SMTP:fullermd@futuresouth.com] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 1997 9:54 PM To: Doug White Cc: James E. Marker; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can ping but nothing else? On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, James E. Marker wrote: > > > I just set up my freeBSD system and I can not make anything internet > > related (ftp, www) work except ping. Any ideas? > > Check your routing. I did have routing messed up, but that is another story. Does your ISP have a firewall? That would certainly do this. Stupid config of it, but.... No, I am T1 to MCI. Do these services work from a non-FreeBSD machine (if you can check, that is) No, they wouldn't work from anything that was going to/from my class-C. What are you using to test www? Lynx? I tried everything MSIE, telnet, ftp, lynx.... *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*