Re: Firewall question

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Jeremy C. Reed
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Firewall question
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Vaughn Treude wrote:

> Hello everyone:
> I'm trying to access the website for a particular radio station
> (1100kfnx.com) and my browser always times out looking for it. It's the
> same way on the other machines on my network, including my wife's
> Windoze machine. I know the site exists, because I've used my Nokia
> Internet tablet to access it through a different network. Therefore I
> assume my firewall (which is Shorewall, running with default options) is
> blocking this site for some unknown reason. I haven't found any
> relevant records in the /var/logs directory; I would expect it to say
> "blocked ULX x.x.x.x, or something like that. Where should I look next?


Check your route table (netstat -rn) also.

Also make sure you can look the hostname in DNS (use dig and ping -- even
if you can't ping it it can tell you IP).

Maybe try tracerouting to the IP.

As for your shorewall setup, I don't know.
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss