can not connect to www.freebsd.org or IP addr 8.8.178.110 port 80

[Cary]

Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have some FreeBSD CURRENT netbooks and one Ubuntu in my WLAN, the WAN IP
> addr is 88.217.112.246 (as shown by http://myip.nl/ )
> 
> none of the WLAN workstations can reach www.freebsd.org at port 80; the
> command
> 
> telnet www.freebsd.org 80
> 
> shows resolving to the IP addr 8.8.178.110, but does not connect; a tcpdump
> shows only SYN pkg going out to  8.8.178.110 but no SYN answer is coming in.
> This is as far as I can see the only side which is not reachable, all other
> port 80, 443 and SSH 22 to anywhere is just fine;
> 
> Any ideas what could be wrong? I'm afraid, when I contact my ISP (a German
> local telephone provider) they will ask me if I have the latest Win7 patch
> installed ... :-)
> 
> matthias
> 
hello Matthias,

Today I also noticed, just after fetching ports with portsnap(8) ,
that 8.8.178.110 wasn't responding.  It is back now afaict.

Cary

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