odd issues with connections to external websites

[Pascal Hambourg]

Hello,

Scott van Looy a écrit :
> Noticed this in the last month or so:
> When running my IPTables firewall I can't get to some websites, eg 
> www.adobe.com or jdl.sun.com
> when I disable IPTables I can
> 
> Anyone got any ideas as to why this could be the case?

www.adobe.com -> www.wip3.adobe.com -> 192.150.20.61
jdl.sun.com -> 192.18.97.144

Both addresses start with 192. My guess is you have some rule intended 
to filter out the private range 192.168.0.0/16 but with a wrong 
mask/prefix length.