[H-GEN] Strange problem.

[John Boggon]

Hi All,

I've been having some problems accessing various web sites and I wondered if
anyone else could duplicate the problem. I am inclined to blame my IP
Masquerading setup.

I can't access sites like www.suncorp.com.au or www.mainroads.qld.gov.au
from my Windows machine that's connected to the net via Linux and ip-masq.
Yet both Lynx and Netscape on Linux can get to these sites with no problems.
Other sites like www.humbug.org.au etc can be reached by either machine.

Trying to traceroute suncorp from Linux results in a loop at
metba.lnk.telstra.net

centaur:/root# traceroute www.suncorp.com.au
traceroute to www.suncorp.com.au (203.25.47.4), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  annex17.cc.uq.edu.au (130.102.2.83)  135.587 ms  127.317 ms  129.784 ms
 2  gateway2.cc.uq.edu.au (130.102.2.30)  119.791 ms  127.772 ms  119.83 ms
 3  croc.cc.uq.edu.au (130.102.2.90)  144.559 ms  152.68 ms  149.795 ms
 4  Serial4-3.cha1.Brisbane.telstra.net (139.130.64.17)  299.833 ms  577.598
ms  279.782 ms
 5  metba.lnk.telstra.net (139.130.65.35)  349.798 ms *  350.089 ms
 6  * ( will not get past this site )

And a ping will result in 100% packet loss. A tracert from windows says
C:\WINDOWS>tracert www.suncorp.com.au

Tracing route to www.suncorp.com.au [203.25.47.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   <10 ms     1 ms     1 ms  centaur.ml.org [192.168.75.150]
  2   234 ms   139 ms   139 ms  annex17.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.83]
  3   140 ms   139 ms   140 ms  gateway2.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.30]
  4   150 ms   139 ms   139 ms  croc.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.90]
  5   300 ms   209 ms   309 ms  Serial4-3.cha1.Brisbane.telstra.net
[139.130.64.17]
  6  metba.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.65.35]  reports: Destination net
unreachable

Trace complete.

Yet Lynx and Netscape on Linux can reach it. I do not have a proxy set up.

Help !.

John.

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