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Hi I'm having a problem with ipfw, I think. For some reason it denies packets randomly for example: PING 196.14.239.2 (196.14.239.2): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Permission denied ping: sendto: Permission denied 64 bytes from 196.14.239.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=0.258 ms 64 bytes from 196.14.239.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=0.233 ms 64 bytes from 196.14.239.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=63

my ports database seems to have become broken. I'm running -stable, but haven't rebuilt the system in a year or so (I know, security vulerabilities, but the box has been shelved in this time). anyhow, at this point, I can't do even a make clean in ports, or build portupgrade. I fetched portupgrade with pkg_add hoping that running pkgdb -F would sort things out, but it errors with: **