[NCLUG] wierd problem

[shaggydan]

I have a *really* strange problem with my linux box that I was hoping
somebody could help me with.

I can't get www.sun.com to come into my computer. I know it's up because I
can ssh into a friend's computer and use lynx to get it but my system
won't do it. The other oddity is that it's only the sun website... I can
even get java.sun.com but not sun.com...

tcpdump shows packets going *to* sun but nothing comming back. This is the
output from `tcpdump tcp > file`:

09:23:10.226004 12-252-9-101.client.attbi.com.35965 > www.sun.com.www:
09:23:13.219684 12-252-9-101.client.attbi.com.35965 > www.sun.com.www:
09:23:19.219691 12-252-9-101.client.attbi.com.35965 > www.sun.com.www:
09:23:31.219689 12-252-9-101.client.attbi.com.35965 > www.sun.com.www:

Where 12.252.9.101=me and www.sun.com=sun

There was more but it looked like garbage to me (possibly the contents of
the packets, I'm not sure) and it didn't fit on a line in pine so I cut
it.

However, that "more" did not include any responce from sun whatsoever. I
don't have a tcpdump log file from my friend's computer because tcpdump
isn't really a good util to use over a network, you get feedback.

Does anybody have *any* clue what's going on?

Is my system filtering those packets for some reason? Has sun blocked my
IP or something?

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