Q: Why does my firewall hate the cambridge picturehouse?
Jeremy Henty
onepoint at starurchin.org
Wed Oct 22 12:57:29 CEST 2008
Recently, whenever I try to access the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse at
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema_home_date.aspx?venueId=camb
the download grinds to a halt, the connection resets, and my firewall
log fills up with dropped packets. Has anyone else seen this? Any
clues about debugging iptables LOG output?
If you want more details...
My iptables INPUT chain accepts everything from RELATED and
ESTABLISHED connections and LOGs and DROPs everything else. It's
really simple and it's been configured that way for years.
I see the same behaviour whether I access the URL with Firefox, Dillo,
links or wget.
The URL used to work fine. I think the problems coincide with a
redesign of the site (but I could be wrong).
I also recently moved to a fresh Linux From Scratch. I copied the
previous iptables configuration so I doubt it has anything to do with
the problem (but again I could be wrong).
I'm not seeing these problems with any other URL or protocol.
Any ideas?
TIA,
Jeremy Henty
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