firewall blocking https

zamrg

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I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and am using shorewall to configure a firewall on my server, which acts as a router for my home network.

I've got the following set up:
Code:
ALLOW connections from LAN to NET
ALLOW connections from LAN to FIREWALL

ALLOW connections from FIREWALL to NET
ALLOW connections from FIREWALL to LAN

DROP connections from NET to ALL

REJECT connections from ALL to ALL

and have opened a few ports on the server such as http, https, dhcp, dns, etc.

I've run in to a problem where by certain https pages refuse to load from any pc behind my home network.
eg: I'm able to access gmail, fnb through https but a site such as https://help.ubuntu.com won't load. The browser status bar just says "Connected to help.ubuntu.com" but nothing ever comes up. If I try access the site on the actual firewall pc, it works just fine.
 
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