From: William m. <mc...@cp...> - 2003-03-30 06:50:44
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William McEwan wrote: > "Forbidden > You were denied access because: > > Access denied by access control list." > > Hi, I'm getting the above message when trying to access: > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net I have since received a reply from my Internet Service Provider: "We cannot view this website here at the helpdesk either, this is because that particular website is having problems. We do not have control of wheather websites go down or have problems with there configurations.. You could perhaps try emailing he...@so... and they might be able to lighten your situation up a bit. Regards Slingshot Team" Then I tried wget, and then telnet, as you suggested. As shown below, wget didn't work but telnet did. Then I checked Mozilla settings (they were already on Direct Connection). Whilst in Mozilla I tried http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ again. It worked! I honestly didn't change the Proxy settings in Mozilla. I quickly retried wget again and this time it successfully downloaded index.html. Hmmm...now it all works, but why. The question remains: why did the problem with the user-mode-linux site and the news.bbc.co.uk sites happen in the first place but no other site seemed involved..?!!! Oh well, thanks greatly for your help - until the next time, William Here is what I originally got... Method 1, wget: (didn't work as you can see) [root@oldpent root]# unset http_proxy [root@oldpent root]# wget http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ --18:13:07-- http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ => `index.html' Resolving user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net... done. Connecting to user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net[66.35.250.209]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 18:13:08 ERROR 403: Forbidden. Method 2, telnet: (Did work) [root@oldpent root]# telnet user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net 80 Trying 66.35.250.209... Connected to user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net. Escape character is '^]'. GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 Host: user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net HTTP/1.1 200 OK Age: 0 Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 06:19:45 GMT Content-Length: 18783 Content-Type: text/html Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2 Last-Modified: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:54:39 GMT ETag: "278351-495f-3e2c8c3f" Via: 1.1 nc2 (NetCache NetApp/5.3.1R2) <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>The User-mode Linux Kernel Home Page</title> ... William McEwan School of Computing Faculty of Commerce tel: 940 8244 Room: N220 >>> William Stearns <wst...@po...> 03/30/03 17:10 PM >>> Good eveniong, William, On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, William mcEwan wrote: > "Forbidden > You were denied access because: > > Access denied by access control list." > > Hi, I'm getting the above message when trying to access: > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net > > I can get in fine if I instead use: > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/index.html Both come up fine for me. Try this at a shell prompt. unset http_proxy wget http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Do you get an index.html in your current directory? Take a look at it and see if looks like the homepage. If that still screws up, try typing the "telnet...", "GET...", and "Host:..." lines, and press enter twice after the Host line: [wstearns@sparrow tmp]$ telnet user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net 80 Trying 66.35.250.209... Connected to projects.sourceforge.net (66.35.250.209). Escape character is '^]'. GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 Host: user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net If you're getting the home page with either of these, I'd suspect that you have a proxy in place with your main browser, and that proxy is blocking access for some reason. Try turning off the proxy (in Netscape, go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Proxies and check "Direct connection to the Internet". I strongly suspect that it's your _proxy_ that's blocking access and not the actual target web site. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...exploiting this vulnerability would cause the RPC service to fail, with the attendant loss of any RPC-based services the server offers, as well as potential loss of some COM functions. ...Although Windows NT 4.0 is affected by this vulnerability, Microsoft is unable to provide a patch for this vulnerability for Windows NT 4.0. The architectural limitations of Windows NT 4.0 do not support the changes that would be required to remove this vulnerability. Windows NT 4.0 users are strongly encouraged to employ the workaround discussed in the FAQ below, which is to protect the NT 4.0 system with a firewall that blocks Port 135." -- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-010.asp?frame=true "Microsoft is betting that customers using 7-year-old Windows NT 4 Server--35 percent of the total--are ripe for an upgrade." -- http://news.com.com/2100-1012-994437.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wst...@po...). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org Linux articles at: http://www.opensourcedigest.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
From: William m. <mc...@cp...> - 2003-03-30 07:06:39
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As a final test to end my the saga (I hope) I rebooted back to the old Windows 95 partition, where the problem first surfaced. Hmmm, everthing works fine from IE in there now too... I didn't touch a thing. So how come. Afterall, there were two (but only two...) Internet sites involved, yourselves and news.bbc.co.uk and my ISP claiming that there was nothing wrong at their end...I wonder... Regards William William McEwan School of Computing Faculty of Commerce tel: 940 8244 Room: N220 >>> William Stearns <wst...@po...> 03/30/03 17:10 PM >>> Good eveniong, William, On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, William mcEwan wrote: > "Forbidden > You were denied access because: > > Access denied by access control list." > > Hi, I'm getting the above message when trying to access: > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net > > I can get in fine if I instead use: > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/index.html Both come up fine for me. Try this at a shell prompt. unset http_proxy wget http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Do you get an index.html in your current directory? Take a look at it and see if looks like the homepage. If that still screws up, try typing the "telnet...", "GET...", and "Host:..." lines, and press enter twice after the Host line: [wstearns@sparrow tmp]$ telnet user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net 80 Trying 66.35.250.209... Connected to projects.sourceforge.net (66.35.250.209). Escape character is '^]'. GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 Host: user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net If you're getting the home page with either of these, I'd suspect that you have a proxy in place with your main browser, and that proxy is blocking access for some reason. Try turning off the proxy (in Netscape, go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Proxies and check "Direct connection to the Internet". I strongly suspect that it's your _proxy_ that's blocking access and not the actual target web site. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...exploiting this vulnerability would cause the RPC service to fail, with the attendant loss of any RPC-based services the server offers, as well as potential loss of some COM functions. ...Although Windows NT 4.0 is affected by this vulnerability, Microsoft is unable to provide a patch for this vulnerability for Windows NT 4.0. The architectural limitations of Windows NT 4.0 do not support the changes that would be required to remove this vulnerability. Windows NT 4.0 users are strongly encouraged to employ the workaround discussed in the FAQ below, which is to protect the NT 4.0 system with a firewall that blocks Port 135." -- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-010.asp?frame=true "Microsoft is betting that customers using 7-year-old Windows NT 4 Server--35 percent of the total--are ripe for an upgrade." -- http://news.com.com/2100-1012-994437.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wst...@po...). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org Linux articles at: http://www.opensourcedigest.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |