[Gllug] Mac OS9 LAN http access

[Garry Heaton]

Solved it. The problem was Firestarter. For some reason it has set some
iptables rules to work when the thing was switched off. Once I added the
Mac's IP as a trusted host everything worked. Still can't work-out when this
app is on and off as it is listed as a service but I start it manually.

Garry

John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Garry Heaton wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have an old PowerMac 7100/66 running OS9 which I've just connected to my
>>router with an AAUI-15/10baseT adapter with a view to checking web pages
>>hosted on a Linux/Apache server also connected to the LAN. IPs are:
>>
>>I can't understand why the Mac can access the internet via the LAN/router
>>but can't connect to HTTP services running on the LAN without extra
>>components since I'm not attempting to share any filesystems.
>>
> 
> I've got a similar setup, and it works for me,
> though I did have to alter the firewalling rules on the Linux box.
> Some things to check:
> 
> a) is your Mac set to use an HTTP proxy?
> b) are there some  tight firewalling rules on the Debian box?
> 
> 
> 
> 


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