Re: Portmaster 2e/routing problem ?

Patrick Greenwell (patrick@value.net)
Mon, 23 Oct 1995 15:52:46 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Alfred L. Johnson wrote:

> Our users are successful at connecting to our portmaster 2e but then
> cannot reach anything outside our domain. Our portmaster 2e is
> configured to point to our portmaster 2eR in the global configuration
> specification "IP Gateway". Do I also need to specify a static route?
>
> Strange. I can telnet to our portmaster 2e and then "ping" anything
> outside our domain. DNS is configured.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alfred L. Johnson

DNS may be configured, but it sounds like it is configured improperly.
Check your reverse lookups. Most places refuse telnet sessions if they
can't do a gethostbyname call, while a ping does not require a reverse
lookup to go through.

Patrick