Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Frederico.S.Muñoz wrote: > > AFAIK either the HTTP, the FTP, or both; it depends on what you define in > > your sources.line. > > > > If you only define http sites you would only need the http port open, the > > same with the ftp. > > 2 things: > > 1) If you're blocking connections anal retentively, non-passive FTP may > break anyway. > > 2) Why are you blocking *outgoing* connections, anyway? If you don't > trust people inside your network to make an outbound connection, do they > really need to be on the network at all?
I am not an expert, anyhow, I think the *outgoing* connections are allowed. See below: # Output rules # # ipfwadm -O -l IP firewall output rules, default policy: deny type prot source destination ports acc ALL X.X.X.0/25 0.0.0.0/0 n/a acc ALL 0.0.0.0/0 X.X.X.0/25 n/a And the machine which has the issue has the below allowed: # Input rules # # ipfwadm -I -l | grep 5 acc TCP 0.0.0.0/0 X.X.X.5 * -> 80 acc TCP 0.0.0.0/0 X.X.X.5 80,443 -> 1024:65535 acc TCP 0.0.0.0/0 X.X.X.5 119,81,20,21 -> 1024:65535 ^ ^ The X.X.X.5 host is behind the firewall. Why pointing apt-get to ftp.de.debian.org raises a "Connection time out" message after Login-Connecting successfully?. The "Packages" file is not downloaded any byte (0%). Note: I can use "lynx" and "ftp" rightly on the X.X.X.5 host. I can even download the "Packages" file using the "ftp" command. Uhmm, ... Is it needed enable the UDP protocol to use "apt-get"?. # ipfwadm -I -l | grep 5 acc TCP 0.0.0.0/0 X.X.X.5 * -> 80 acc TCP 0.0.0.0/0 X.X.X.5 80,443 -> 1024:65535 acc TCP 0.0.0.0/0 X.X.X.5 119,81,20,21 -> 1024:65535 ^ ^ Do you know any SMTP, FTP, firewall, DNS, POP3, ... server which uses Debian and "apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade" in cron to fix the security bugs automatically?. Is it usual?. Davi