[plug] The world has disappeared

[Steve Boak]

Hi All

Is anyone else having severe difficulties accessing international web 
sites? I have absolutely no problems with Australian sites, such 
abc.net.au, google.com.au, westnet.com.au (my ISP) etc, but lots of 
URLs pointed to by google are off line (to me anyway).

My problem is that yesterday I totally rearanged my network to put it 
all behind a firewall (the aforementioned EPIA V quiet box running 
Debian Woody and shorewall). Now I don't know if it is my fault that 
I can't see a substantial part of the 'net. I am assuming it is not 
my fault at the moment, because I can't find any pattern in the lost 
pages except that they are all overseas, and I can't see any way for 
a firewall to cause this sort of strangeness.

Any help or suggestions welcome (hopefully a few people saying 'me 
too')

Steve

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'What is worth doing and what is worth having?'
I would like to say simply this.
"It is worth doing nothing and having a rest."