From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 10 1:35: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750D837B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:34:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.trident-uk.co.uk (mail.trident-uk.co.uk [81.3.89.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDC343E42 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost.pe.trident-uk.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mail.trident-uk.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32EFB581; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:34:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from JAMIEHECKFORD (wrkstn-94.pe.trident-uk.co.uk [192.168.100.94]) by mail.trident-uk.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 9955F57E; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:34:38 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <037b01c258a4$dcf1f340$5e64a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD> From: "Jamie Heckford" To: "Christian Sung" , References: <02b101c257e9$b75654c0$5e64a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD> <200209091726.g89HQIjH016946@kamasutra.unixsmith.com> Subject: Re: Strangeness with IPFW + NATD Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:34:22 +0100 Organization: Trident Microsystems Limited MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just to confuse you even more... a cvsup to FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Sep 9 12:39:59 BST 2002 ............ and it worked fine! My guess is there was some sort of "hidden" route jammed in the routing table that must of been cleared when I rebooted. I can't see any reason for it to be a change in the code!! Who knows - at least it works now! Thanks for all your help :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Sung" To: "Jamie Heckford" ; Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Strangeness with IPFW + NATD > On Monday 09 September 2002 03:14, Jamie Heckford wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I seem to be having a rather odd problem with IPFW + NATD. > > > > I have added rules to allow a certain IP address access to port 80 which is > > redirected to an internal host. > > > > Now, this doesn't work whatsoever from a Windows 2K or XP machine, if I > > type the hostname or IP address in IE6 I can see the packets going back and > > forth fine > > but nothing is displayed apart from the "Server or DNS error" bit. > > > > If I telnet to the host port 80 from the Windoze telnet client, I just get > > "Connecting to x.x.x.x....", once > > again I can see the packets going through the firewall fine (I have maximum > > logging setup here ;) ). > > > > Fair enough, sounds like a misconfig somewhere. But Im convinced everything > > is fine.. so I reboot > > the WinXP box and boot into FreeBSD (they both have the same IP address). > > > > Now, using netscape, telnet, lynx I can connect perfectly ok to this IP > > address, > > and have the web page displayed, which is the odd part! > > > > It is definatly not a setting on the windows client, but Im really > > scratching my head over this one > > as I cannot see any reason for the webpage not to load, especially when it > > works fine from any UNIX > > shell around the world! > > > > FYI I am running FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Tue Aug 13 16:31:04 BST 2002. > > > > Grateful for any insight anyone could give me on this rather bizarre issue. > > I've encountered a similar problem in the past, and it had to do with > restrictions on the Windows browser that precluded the execution of Active-X > controls and Java scripts. Allowing these to run immediately corrected the > problem.... > > Regards, > > -christian > > -- > --------------------------------------- > Christian W. Sung - CEO > UNIXsmith Corporation > E-Mail: Christian@UNIXsmith.com > -------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message