From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 9 10:26:30 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 AAC0437B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kamasutra.unixsmith.com (ct-dsl-162-42-126-10.cybertrails.com [162.42.126.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACDF43E4A for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:26:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@kamasutra.unixsmith.com) Received: from kamasutra.unixsmith.com (localhost.unixsmith.com [127.0.0.1]) by kamasutra.unixsmith.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g89HQOnE016967; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@kamasutra.unixsmith.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by kamasutra.unixsmith.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g89HQIjH016946; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200209091726.g89HQIjH016946@kamasutra.unixsmith.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Christian Sung Organization: UNIXsmith Corporation To: "Jamie Heckford" , Subject: Re: Strangeness with IPFW + NATD Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:26:17 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <02b101c257e9$b75654c0$5e64a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD> In-Reply-To: <02b101c257e9$b75654c0$5e64a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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