Re: www.adobe.com

[John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>]

TheOldFellow wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:22:00 +0100
> Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> The problem may lie in your router, your network interface card or its 
>> driver. Anyway it does not seem to be related to netfilter/iptables, as 
>> tcpdump sees the packet as malformed before it enters the netfilter 
>> code. Can you try with another router, machine, kernel or network 
>> interface ?
>>     
>
> Yes, but it will take time to arrange.  It's very strange that it only
> occurs on that range if IP addresses, which are also very similar to
> the 192.168.0.0/16 private address range.  I wonder if this would
> improve if I changed the address range used on the ADSL router -
> firewall to, say, 172.20.1.0.  If it's software/firmware in the router
> or NIC that might avoid it.
>   

It's perhaps not that strange.   I had a similar problem a little while 
ago -- the networks guy had a set of blacklisted addresses in the router 
that was rather out of date.   He blamed his predecessor :-)

jch