Re: Can't access www.kde.org
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On Sunday 27 Apr 2003 2:43 am, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> I'd posted my firewall elsewhere and someone caught this line:
>
> $IPT -t filter -A INPUT -s 80.0.0.0/8 -d $NET -i $IF -j $STOP
>
Bingo
I am a blueyonder (telewest) customer in the UK. Recently, they were assigned
a block of ip addresses in the 82.43.x.x range. The started dishing them out
via dhcp and I was one of the unlucky ones that got given one from that
range.
Subsequent conversations on their status page about network connectivity
problems showed that this range had been in a range that had previously been
un-allocated and that many people had put in filters (like you see above) to
block them. I was getting various sites (linux kernel mailing list archives
was one, dell was another) who somehow where filtering these ip addresses
out. The customers who were having real difficulty were the ones who
couldn't access yahoo. It wasn't necessary the site, it was one of the ISPs
on route.
Anyway, for the major sites, the blueyonder team managed to get the filter
blocks removed, but there are still a few out their.
The only solution I have found is to go via one of their web caches.
Your problem, which you now say is resolved, is almost the mirror image of
mine, in that it looks like www.kde.org got an ip address that at least your
version of the firewall thinks is an ip address that shouldn't be routed. If
your firewall can block that address - it could be possible that other
routers are doing the same.
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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