Completely off the topic.... connectivity from RH Linux box to BUY.COM down for week or so

[Jon Christiansen]

Hi people, I know this doesn't have anything to do specifically with the
eepro100, but I thought this might be a good group of people to ask if
anyone is encountering the same issue I am.

About a week or so ago, I stopped being able to connect to BUY.COM from my
Linux box and any Windows PC hiding behind it using masquerading. If I clear
out my firewall rules, and set the default policy for each chain to be
ACCEPT, I still cannot connect to BUY.COM from either the Linux box or
machines behind it.  If I remove my Linux box as the firewall, and plug the
same PC that couldn't connect directly into my cable modem, I am able to
access BUY.COM.

I can access all other web sites on the internet, just BUY.COM is the
culprit.  I am currently on RedHat 6.0 with all errata patches applied.  Can
anyone else reproduce my problem.  My current guess is one of their routers
or a firewall that has some type of rule that is picking up on my packets
and rejecting them. Not sure if it is picking up on some characteristic of
my Linux packets or something with my Masquerading packets.

Anyone else out there experiencing the same problem, or am I all alone?
Does anyone have an idea of what could be causing the problem?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions/confirmations....

    -Jon