Might be my ipf.rules are blocking  DHCP/UDP packets which wouldn't have 
been a problem with DSL.  I'll have to confirm this.  Anyone know the IP 
of the RR DHCP server?

Marvin Bellamy wrote:

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>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Marvin Bellamy wrote:
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>>> Setup:
>>> OpenBSD firewall on a Pentium 133, running IPF and IPNAT
>>> RedHat 7.2 on my desktop, Pentium 500
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>> Which version of OpenBSD? I have the same setup with RR and it works 
>> fine.
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> OpenBSD 2.8.  How did you configure your external hostname.if file?  I 
> just have "dhcp" in mine since I wasn't aware of any other options 
> that I'd need.
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>>> Hey all.  I just moved to Praire Village, but with no DSL access I 
>>> switched to Road Runner.  I reconfigured my external NIC to use DHCP 
>>> and the session appears to open successfully.  The problem is DNS 
>>> isn't working.  The resolv.conf file is rewritten  with  a "search" 
>>> on the kc.rr.com domain and the three RR DNS servers as 
>>> "nameserver"s.  I can ping external IPs, but I just can't resolve 
>>> names.  I even tried reconfiguring my desktop to use the old DSL 
>>> nameservers to no avail. Any suggestions?
>>>
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>> Try doing a tcpdump on the external NIC. Are you seeing the DNS traffic
>> getting out? How do you have your NAT setup? Any IPF rules? Does an
>> nslookup timeout or does it return an error immediately?
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> Running tcpdump produced practically no output, and that output did 
> not appear to be related to my DNS queries.  I saw a few dumps with 
> ...arp who-has... that usually referenced my gateway address or 
> 24.163.154.160, whatever that is.  It isn't one of the DNS servers.  
> Are there any different types of packets that DHCP might use that 
> would have been blocked by my ipf.rules?  My firewall is essentially 
> unchanged.
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