* On 30/07/05 15:20 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:41:52PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > I am using IPFilter and IPNat on several FreeBSD boxes. They are mostly > > configured the same. > > > > Each box has two interfaces, public and internal, and acts as a router > > to the LAN which is 'behind' it. The LAN machines use the FreeBSD as the > > gateway, as well as a DNS server. I run cache-only config. > > > > The problem I have is that when, for any reason, the public link goes > > down, the machines on the LAN timeout when communicating. > > It sound like there tying to lookup hostnames via DNS or something like > this. > > Are you able to ping them with there ip addresses? > Are you able to ping them with there host names?
Ping by IP addresses works. However, I have not tried ping by hostname since I have not setup any DNS or host entries for the machines on the LAN. I did not think this is a "REQUIREMENTS" at all. Is it?? So is this a DNS problem that I can resolve by just using /etc/hosts entries, maybe? Does my ipnat rules look okay? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
