Some sites are designed to respond in different ways depending on some of
the environment-vatiable headers that get sent with a URL request. The most
common use here is to adapt to the differences between IE and Netscape, but
I've seen others, including an outright refusal to connect to browsers not
running on Windows hosts. That can easily explain the Macintosh problem.
Depending on the details of how you connect through your Linux "gateway"
(are you simply using it as a router? is it also Masquerading the LAN hosts?
are you using junkbuster? are you using some other proxy server?), it might
explain those failures as well.
For more help, we need details you haven't provided about your setup ...
... details of your Linux setup
... what browsers (including version) fail
... the exact URLs that fail
... the failure messages you get (either to the browser or in
your log files)
Am I right in understanding that when you say ...
>When I reconnect to the net with my mac, I also cannot view any of these
>sights, ever.
... you mean connecting the Mac directly to the net (not through the Linux
gateway)? If so, that makes it clear that your problem isn't a Linux
problem, or at least not entirely a Linux problem. That may limit our
ability to help you, since the expertise on this list, not surprisingly, is
mainly about Linux, not Windows or Macs.
At 08:28 AM 7/5/00 -0400, jmarr wrote:
>Good Morning:
>
> This has been annoying me and I was wondering if anyone knew the answer.
> When I connect to the Internet (through my linux box as a gateway)
>sometimes I cannot view certain web pages on five different computers. On
>the network where my box acts as a gateway, I have two PCs running windows
>98 2nd and I cannot go to sites such as microsoft, buy.com, linux.com (at
>certain times, other times it works fine) and a couple of other ones like
>vsttech.com. My linux box running slackware 7.0 and enlightenment is also
>unable to connect to these sights using netscape or lynx. I run ping to
>these sights and I get 100% packet loss. Every so often, one or two of
>these sights (such as microsoft) actually work.
>
>When I reconnect to the net with my mac, I also cannot view any of these
>sights, ever.
>
>When I reconnect with my other pc that my sister uses, I can surf ALL of
>these web sights with no problem whatsoever. She is running windows 98 2nd
>configured exactly the same as my other windows machines. The only
>difference is that it is not running through my gateway. Is it possible
>that my gateway is causing some sort of problem? Why would my mac not be
>able to connect to certain sights when my sister's pc has no trouble?
>
>I realize that this might be unanswerable, but could someone maybe help me
>out here. Should I be looking for something?
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