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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
