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Can only route to Google and GMail

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Suture

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We have about a dozen computers at an office on Verizon DSL. They are behind a Sonic Wall TZ170 router, and a Dell switch (I think). All of the computers except for 2 can route fine. These 2 computers can only route to GMail and Google. They can do searches in Google, but can only click on the cached pages. They time out when trying to access e-mail from Outlook.

First computer is a Dell Optiplex (forgot model). It was working fine a week ago. No patches or changes have been made on this computer, or the network. It runs XP Pro.

Second computer is my laptop, running XP Pro and Ubuntu 64 -- it works absolutely fine at home.

Here's my notes:

- No proxy being used
- Cleared ARP
- Rebooted router, modem
- Hooked straight up to modem -- the Dell and the laptop work fine then.
- Assigned IP addresses (no change)
- ICMP passes through fine
- Checked Sonic Wall -- no changes have been made, rules look fine. Opened it up to all traffic, still can't route right on those 2 computers.
- Ran a sniffer, saw nothing unusual.
- Ran anti-virus scans and anti-spyware using CA eTrust, Pest Patrol, and Zone Alarm anti-virus. Also used Panda and the free scan from Trend. Nothing found.
- Same DNS as other computers.

Any suggestions? I don't understand what in the Sonic Wall is stopping these 2 computers. We have no filters setup or special rules for any of the workstations on the network. I looked at every single option on the Sonic Wall, and verified it against what I had in my notes (we record our settings on paper) and they are absolutely fine. I'm literally out of ideas, short of replacing the darn thing.
 
Update: I carry around a D-Link DWL-G730 with me, a portable router/AP device. I added it via a small switch to our network and broadcast, and I can still only connect to GMail and Google.

🙁
 
Sonicwall licensing issues?

Sniffer saw nothing? You should have been able to figure out SOMETHING from that.

Did the DNS request go out
Did the DNS reply come back
etc
 
check hosts file?

I guess it isn't a licesning issue if the problem persists using the netgear as your router/nat device.
 
The SonicWall is literally blocking the pages from coming back to the laptop and the desktop. When the other computers route, it is fine and lets the traffic pass through. But when this particular laptop (which works fine at home on both Linux and XP) and this desktop try to route, SonicWall blocks it, and logs it as a stealth attack.

Also, it's not like this was just setup. These computers have all been here for a while... it's just recently that this started.
 
Regardless of if it has been working, it's not now, and we have narrowed it down to the Sonic Firewall. Figure out why it's doing that and problem solved. Can't help you there, as I've never used a sonic firewall.
 
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