Re: Shorewall question
On 06 Oct 2004, Tim Timmerman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I tried to activate shorewall as a firewall on a 2.6.8.1
> kernel. (using a woody system, and the backport from backports.org)
>
> Everything worked just fine, except for one teensy problem:
>
> - Nothing on the firewall could send mail to other users on the
> firewall.
>
> Needless to say, this breaks things like logcheck (Which is how I
> noticed it in the first place)
>
> Some observations:
> - Rebooted to a 2.4 kernel with ipchains: all mail was handled.
>
> - telnet 127.0.0.1 25 works, both kernels
> - telnet 127.0.0.1 465 doesn't, both kernels.
>
> I don't believe it is the kernel, but rather something silly in my
> shorewall config ?
>
> Anybody got any hints ?
>
> Thanks,
> TimT
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I don't know the answer, but why not post this on the Shorewall mailing
list, where you will doubtless get an answer from the horse's mouth,
i.e. Tom Eastep?
Anthony
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