[luau] RH8.0 laptop woes

[Gary Dunn]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:19:45 -0600
Florian Hines <frhines at swbell.net> wrote:

>  
> Certain website time out (mozilla.org, macromedia.com, gtk.themes.org,
> swbell.net and a few others)
> Evolution times out when i try to send email. (the smtp server just
> happens to be mail.swbell.net)
> If i try to traceroute to mozilla.org it can't get past my second
> router. But i can log into that router with out a problem.
> traceroute's to anywhere else work fine.
>  
> I boot into XP and everything is fine.

Compare the IP address and netmask used in Windows and XP. Also ensure
that the IP you are using is from the domain you are in, because I think
some web sites do a reverse name lookup. Many routers now refuse to
route packets that do not originate in the corresponding domain.



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