Thanks to everyone who helped me out with this. The issue was with selinux. 
I'm not familiar with selinux. It was enabled, and blocking this traffic for 
some reason.

I edited "/etc/sysconfig/selinux" and set "SELINUX=disabled", rebooted.

- Tom



On 8/12/05, Tom Penney <tpenney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have new fedora core 3 box which I am having a strange network problem 
> with.
> 
> I can not get out to the net while logged in. I can get to the machine
> via ssh and apache is serving pages to the outside world but while
> logged into the machine I can not get this page:
> 
> [tomp at highwire ~]$ wget http://localhost
> --16:38:59-- http://localhost/
> => `index.html'
> Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>
> Connecting to localhost[127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>]:80... failed: 
> Permission denied.
> Retrying.
> 
> 
> Names resolve, ping works but I cant get out:
> 
> [root at highwire ~]# ping google.com <http://google.com>
> PING google.com <http://google.com> (216.239.57.99 <http://216.239.57.99>) 
> 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99 <http://216.239.57.99>: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 
> time=78.1 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99 <http://216.239.57.99>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 
> time=77.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99 <http://216.239.57.99>: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 
> time=77.9 ms
> 
> --- google.com <http://google.com> ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 77.912/78.019/78.194/0.345 ms, pipe 2
> 
> [root at highwire ~]# telnet 216.239.57.99 <http://216.239.57.99> 80
> Trying 216.239.57.99...
> telnet: connect to address 216.239.57.99 <http://216.239.57.99>: 
> Permission denied
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Permission denied
> 
> I get the same type of error when I ssh out. although I can ssh into
> the box fine.
> [root at highwire ~]# ssh samba.circussoftware.com<http://samba.circussoftware.com>
> ssh: connect to host samba.circussoftware.com<http://samba.circussoftware.com>port 22: Permission denied
> 
> 
> I don't think it's a local firewall but it sure seems like it:
> [root at highwire ~]# iptables -L
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
> 
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
> 
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any Idea what could be going on here?
> --
> Tom Penney
> 



-- 
Tom Penney
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