[TriLUG] Re: Firewall for my webserver (IPTABLES)
Roy Vestal
rvestal at trilug.org
Mon Jun 9 09:37:34 EDT 2003
One follow up:
Also have your clients upgrade to the AOL 8 or higher. ( I think it's v.9
now). The older ones had "trouble" allowing access to certain sites. I think
CS is owned by AOL.
HTH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry M. Howell II" <jmhowell at jmhowell.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] Re: Firewall for my webserver (IPTABLES)
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 11:38:41PM -0600, Jerry M. Howell II wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm curently running adminning my wifes webserver at
> > gamma.hostbyk.com. We are running redhat 7.3 with a generic 2.4.20
> > kernel custom compiled with all the iptables/NAT goodies. I go to
> > enable the firewall and thats where I runn into problems. I can view
> > the webserver, about 75% of my clients can but there are some that go
> > through compuserve, earthlink and aol that can't seem to access
> > anything once I start the firewall. No email, ftp, can't ping it or
> > pull up a webpage. Thought it was probably ICMP so I allowed that
> > through but still nothing. Might someone have any sugestions? here is
> > the output from /usr/local/iptables-save wich is iptables-1.2.8 BTW.
> >
> > My firewall script can be found at http://www.jmhowell.com/fire.html if
> > you wanna look that over as well. Thnx for any advice that can be given.
> > Any time warner admins feal free to spill the beens as well if you know
> > of anything :)
> >
> Just a little addition. I think I have the issue narowed down. My cousin
> can access the sites through win2k, and linux but not through win98, the
> clients that can't access it are also useing win98. As crazy as it
> sounds I think it's a windows 98 problem accessing dns even through the
> firewall even though the proper ports are open. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Jerry M. Howell II
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