Re: Win32 clients can't access Windows Update & Yahoo Mail

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:05:33 -0500 (EST), Alicia da Conceicao
<alicia@engine.ca> wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> For some reason, I am unable to get my Win32 (Win98SE, WinME, & WinXP)
> clients, behind a IPFILTER NAT'ed firewall, to access Windows Update or
> log into Yahoo Mail (CA or UK versions).

Error messages or anything else useful? Simply "can't access" is a
big vague :-)

> But these clients can access nearly everything else on the net and
> download large (> 1GB) files using HTTP(S) & FTP. Also an internal
> NetBSD & Linux desktops can access Yahoo Mail, even though the Win32
> clients timeout

That would suggest that it's not an IP Filter problem.

My only commend on the rules is that I've not, yet, had to use
mssclamp. Have you tried without?

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