[vox-tech] HTTP Routing Strangeness

[Chris Jenks]

   I finally set up a home network for my Dad, with a linux router/server 
connected to the SBC DSL modem and two workstations that dual boot to 
linux or Windows 2000/XP. One problem has been that some web sites, such 
as ebay.com or mail.yahoo.com, will not load on the workstations, although 
others (www.yahoo.com) work fine, and all these web sites work fine on the 
router. The problem doesn't depend on the operating system, and the 
command:

hal:/home/chris# wget mail.yahoo.com/index.html
--13:35:44--  http://mail.yahoo.com/index.html
            => `index.html.3'
Resolving mail.yahoo.com... 66.218.75.184
Connecting to mail.yahoo.com|66.218.75.184|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...

   hangs on a workstation but not the router. The router uses a simple 
iptables firewall, but even dropping that didn't have any effect. Also, 
connecting by dialup from one of the workstations causes mail.yahoo.com to 
load normally. Does anyone have any idea why mail.yahoo.com/index.html 
would work differently than www.yahoo.com/index.html behind the router?

   Thanks,

     Chris