Firewall question

[Jeremy C. Reed]

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.