From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 0:29:17 2003 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 5912237B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sffwd0.suedfactoring.de (port-212-202-224-251.reverse.qsc.de [212.202.224.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA36B43F18 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:29:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de) Received: from pcs28 (pcs28.SUEDFAC.COM [10.2.1.228]) by sffwd0.suedfactoring.de (8.12.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with SMTP id h0G86BjA001937; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:06:12 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:28:37 +0100 From: Axel Gruner To: Redmond Militante Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw/natd questions Message-Id: <20030116092837.38f1c659.axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de> In-Reply-To: <20030116010808.GA1867@darkpossum> References: <20030116010808.GA1867@darkpossum> Reply-To: axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de Organization: suedfactoring GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-suse-linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 15 Jan 2003 19:08:08 -0600 Redmond Militante wrote: [...] > at the moment, it's not working. > on machine 2, i can't ping www.freebsd.org - i get 'hostname lookup > failure', i can't ping xl0 - external nic on machine 1 - ping > 129.x.x.35 gives me a 'host is down message' machine 2 can ping it's > own static ip successfully - ping 129.x.x.20 works machine 2 can ping > its own hostname successfully - ping machine2.hostname.com works > sorry if this is long, i've been messing with this all day and i think > i'm doing it right. can you guys tell if i'm missing something > obvious? What about your /etc/resolv.conf? On both machines? Did you insert the namserver of your ISP? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message