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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

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