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Re: Help needed on block SMTP



On Wednesday, 18.05.2005 at 11:37 +0200, Samuel Díaz García wrote:

> You need something as this in your linux router/firewall box:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> ip_mail_srv=a.b.c.d
> 
> iptables -t filter -A INPUT -d $ip_mail_srv -p tcp --dport 25 --syn -j
> ACCEPT
> iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 --syn -j DROP

That doesn't look right.  If the mail server is NOT the same system as
the firewall, then nothing will pass on the INPUT chain to the firewall
destined for the mail server.

> #the same in FORWARD chain:
> 
> iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -d $ip_mail_srv -p tcp --dport 25 --syn -j
> ACCEPT
> iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 25 --syn -j DROP

The first of the above two rules will work partly, but won't allow any SMTP
traffic *from* the mail server back out ...

Dave.
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