I got it fixed (or atleast, as good as it can be fixed)
For future reference, here's what went wrong.
During the weekend, SAIX upgraded and repaired all Cisco equipment on their
network. During this repair, they somehow managed to break something major.
The /etc/ppp/options file on the
This gets a 10.0 on my weird-o-meter.
I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE machine sitting at a client which dials in and
collects their mail via POP3, and sends outgoing mail via a smarthost which
points to an SMTP server at their ISP.
This machine has worked fine since late last year, but started
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote:
When connected to their ISP, SAIX, the machine can ping any live internet IP
and it can traceroute to anywhere, but, it can not talk to any DNS server.
Any traffic to port 53 UDP simply seems to dissapear.
Sheer guess, but
On Thursday 31 July 2003 0:16, someone, possibly Barney Wolff, typed:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote:
When connected to their ISP, SAIX, the machine can ping any live
internet IP and it can traceroute to anywhere, but, it can not talk to
any DNS server. Any
