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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:27:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        "David B. Aas" <dave@ciminot.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: FW: Need consulting help with v3.2 firewall
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990811162620.15869E-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <000f01bee442$3cf646e0$0fc8a8c0@dave.ciminot.com>

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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.

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, Inc.                            dan@dpcsys.com
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