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 giving a strange problem this week. 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. The same with firewalling enabled as normal, or even with ipfw add 1 allow ip from any to any When connected to any other ISP we have tried dialing, all works perfectly. When dialed from another FreeBSD box with the same username/password, the SAIX connection works perfectly. Yet, this single machine absolutely flat out refuses to talk to any name server while connected to SAIX, firewalling, no firewalling, no difference. I have tried running tcpdump -i ppp0 udp port 53 in an attempt at capturing these packets, nothing, I also looked at rl0 just for interest's sake, nothing. I have run out of ideas, what am I missing? PS: Please CC me in the reply, I get so much list mail I might miss a reply there. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
