On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:21:41AM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > May 13 15:31:58 arjay kernel: Packet log: output DENY ppp0 PROTO=6
> > 203.31.178.49:1038 203.31.178.14:110 L=60 S=0x00 I=99 F=0x0000 T=64
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> Your firewall is the problem here. Basically you seem to have a rule
> along the lines of:
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> ipchains -A output -p tcp --dport 110 -j DENY
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> So anything trying to connect to the outside world on port 110 is denied
> access. Unless you specifically want to block access to certain remote
> services for your users, you probably don't want to play with the output
> chain.
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> Graeme.
I could not find any ipchains rules lines like above so I gradually
disabled all of the files in initd pertaining to networking then made
ifup non-exec and finally recompiled ( several times). Knocking out
IP-firewalling works,but a poor solution -:(
Could you give me a specific location to check.I obviously don't
know enough yet about the hows and whys debian does things.
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