On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 07:47:22PM -0700, Kareem Kazkaz wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I have an OpenBSD box running as my firewall (v4.2, PPPoE with AT&T over a
> Netopia 2210). I am using pf to share the internet connection to the local
> network, which is made up of two Mac laptops (one 10.5.3, one 10.4.6) and
> one Mac Mini (10.5.3).
> 
> From the local network, I can connect to some websites just fine. Other
> websites, however, can't load and eventually time out. The sites that time
> out are the same among all three Macs, and I get the same behavior on all
> three Macs whether I use Safari or Firefox. I can nslookup all the websites
> that don't load and I get IP addresses back, so I know it's not a DNS issue.
> I've rebooted all machines, including the firewall, so it doesn't seem to be
> a cache issue.
> 
> Compounding the problem is that I can connect to the firewall and run
> Firefox (sending the X window to my mac laptop), and I can connect just fine
> to every web site I can think of.

It would be nice to see your pf.conf and other related settings.

> 
> Websites I can't connect to include (but are not limited to)
> www.washingtonpost.com, www.latimes.com, www.cnet.com,
> www.chicagotribune.com.
> 
> So it appears as though the OpenBSD box is communicating to the internet
> just fine, but for some reason it's not packetforwarding some of the
> traffic.
> 
> I'm really stumped by this one. Does anybody have any idea of how to start
> tracking down what's going wrong?
> 
> 
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In any case, this has been discussed multiple times, check this one out
for example:
http://marc.info/?t=120856943400001&r=1&w=2

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