Re: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted

[Bob Bernstein <bernie@brainiac.com>]

For the record, removing the debian 'ipmasq' package - which had an empty
configuration and therefore was defaulting everything to deny - solved the
ping and dns problems, solved everything in fact except how to get ipmasqing
working in 2.0.34. 

I'm suspicious of that 'IPAUTOFW' option. Does anybody have a kernel config
for 2.0.34 that produces a working ip masq?




Bob Bernstein <bernie@brainiac.com> wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen the Subject: line's message before?
> 
> I just compiled 2.0.34 to get ip masqing going, and I appear in the process
> thereof to have trashed something really basic. Ecch! I get this whether I
> ping a local host, a remote host, or the machine itself.
> 
> The system's ifconfig and routing tables look ok. It will dial up my ISP and
> get an IP assigned which duly appears in both those tables. But it then acts
> as if there's no DNS available, which there is, as I can verify by
> connecting with another machine to the same ISP.


Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I.