[NTLUG:Discuss] Google behind a firewall

[Douglas Scott]

Has anyone else noticed this.  I have two machines, both currently running 
Linux.  One is directly connected to the Internet via a cable modem and 
servers as a firewall for the other.  The internal machine is my primary 
workstation.  I am currently upgrading it from Red Hat 7.2 to 7.3 and it can 
duel boot into Window 98 too.

Yesterday I tried to go to Google to look something up from the workstation.  
I got the following message.

An error occured while loading http://www.google.com:

Timeout on server
www.google.com

I was able to hit other sites just fine.  Okay, the server is down I thought.  
But later I tried it from the firewall machine and it worked.  But it was 
still down on the internal machine.  I tried it again from the older RH 7.2 
disk and got the same results.  Then I went into Win98 and tried it.  It does 
the same thing there too.

Could Google be doing something that checks that the IP address a request is 
coming from is the same as the machine that generated it.  That would of 
course break anything that uses masquerading.

-- 
Doug Scott
dcscott1 at attbi.com