[NTLUG:Discuss] Google behind a firewall

[Fred James]

If the issue is arising simultaneously with the upgrade, I would suggest 
the cause is probably in the configuration of the new/upgraded OS/firewall.

I am currently running Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 desktops/laptops behind a 
Linksys router/firewall solution (Etherfast Cable/DSL Router), and I 
have not experience any problems with the internet, let alone Google.

At work, with my Red Hat 7.1 laptop, I sometimes experience problems 
with the Internet, but I have been lead to believe it is because of the 
types of filtering they are doing there, and the way they do DNS.  It is 
not a good thing.  It is not a bad thing.  It is just a thing.



Douglas Scott wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 


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