[plug] The world has disappeared

[John Clayton]

Ahhh its your fault the world disappeared. Wonder where it went. Please roll 
back your configuration so that I can read the news again.


>From: Steve Boak <sboak at westnet.com.au>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: [plug] The world has disappeared
>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:25:03 +0800
>
>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
>
>--
>'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."
>From 'The Curly Pyjama Letters' by Michael Leunig.
>

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