Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:26:17 -0700 From: Christian Sung <Christian@UNIXsmith.com> To: "Jamie Heckford" <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Strangeness with IPFW + NATD Message-ID: <200209091726.g89HQIjH016946@kamasutra.unixsmith.com> In-Reply-To: <02b101c257e9$b75654c0$5e64a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD> References: <02b101c257e9$b75654c0$5e64a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD>
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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
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