On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:22:00PM -0800, Rachel Leising wrote: > > -- > I can't seem to get name resolution working correctly. > > According to sniffer output, the dns query goes out fine and the > response comes back just fine. However, my machine then replies to > the dns server with an ICMP "port unreachable message"... regardless > of the ephemeral port used by my machine as the source port for the > dns query.
Could you post the actual tcpdump(1) output, # tcpdump -vvvn 'udp && port 53' Just in case you are missing something. > nestat -s also shows the following udp counters incrementing: > > "x dropped due to no socket" This is what I would expect for what you describe... > "y dropped due to full socket buffers" Hmmmm... Could we double-check the firewall issue, $ sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable net.inet.ipf.fr_running And see the full output of, $ netstat -s -p udp $ netstat -an -p udp $ host testhost # your DNS test here $ netstat -s -p udp $ netstat -an -p udp -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message