PING

[timothy at erinet.com]

>   I've setup my internet and external DNS server, and the internet DNS work
> great.  I can ping the inside world and the outside world.  But I'm unable
> to ping from my firewall with my external DNS server.  I can however do an
> nslookup on my firewall.
>   What is making it so that I can ping?

Jonathan,

Quick thought:  Are the pings allowed to return to a destination on 
your firewall?  (not blocked by the FW software)

What error is received when you try to ping?  Lookup failures or
no response to the ping?

best regards,

tim