Re: Mystics of packet forwarding

["Artūras Šlajus" <x11@arturaz.net>]

Ivan Petrushev wrote:
> One think I can come with is TTL limiting (largely known here where I
> live). Try pinging these "troubling" sites from your home gateway and
> see if TTL is 1 or 2 or some bigger value.
I don't quite understand what are you saying? TTL too small and expires in path? 
TTL too big and gets filtered some how?

> And one other thing - you said these sites disappear, but I didin't
> understood where from are you testing? From the home gateway or from
> the NATed boxes behind it?
 From both sites..

> Could you add SNAT rule for non-existant box (IP that is not present
> on your network, like 192.168.0.200) and see if these sites work.
> 
> And one other thing - /16 ? Do you really have such big network? :)
No, but I have a lot of dumbass users who love to set static ips to ones that 
servers use :)) And I doubt that this is the problem...