Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:45:42 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Aled Treharne <aled.treharne@mistral.net> Cc: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Subject: Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html? Message-ID: <20040220124542.GA854@alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <1077191239.58209.4.camel@aledt.tech.ensign.ftech.net> References: <20040219114657.431db5cc.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <20040219083023.GA995@alex.lan> <1077191239.58209.4.camel@aledt.tech.ensign.ftech.net>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:47:20AM +0000, Aled Treharne wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 08:30, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > Dear Robert, > > > > > The problem - I cannot access any web sites with http. Doesn't > > matter if I use Konqueror, Mozilla or Lynx. Yet, all the Windows > > machines on this network can browse the web (using Internet Explorer) > > without difficulty. > [...] > > > Is it somehow possible that the Windows gateway only allows Internet > > Explorer to work? Doesn't seem possible, but what do I know? All > > suggestions welcome. > > > > No a firewall doesn't know anything like that. It makes it choices based > [...] > > True... > > > known working client. The other option is that is a proxy server > [...] > > Ah! And here lies the crux of it. If you have Microsoft Proxy server > installed with Proxy client on each of the machines, the Proxy client > hooks into the IP stack of the client machine. I've never looked into it > in any depth, but this may be what is causing your headaches. > > The solution is either to set up the proxy server to proxy HTTP > properly, install a different Proxy software on there (try Wingate), or > alternatively, install FreeBSD and squid on there. :) I think I can quess what you will advise. :D -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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