Re: Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-07 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/7/20 4:54 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: I have further confused you, because TCP packets+connections also have state, and I misspoke. Think nothing of it: at my age, I'm easily confused. -- JHHL - To unsubscribe,

Re: Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-07 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James, On 1/7/20 7:22 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 1/7/20 4:17 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> iptables doesn't work on pipes, it works on packets. So you have >> to redirect both incoming AND outgoing packets. That's why you >> have the

Re: Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-07 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/7/20 4:17 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: iptables doesn't work on pipes, it works on packets. So you have to redirect both incoming AND outgoing packets. That's why you have the "output redirect" as well as the (more obvious) "input redirect". Well, that just leaves me more puzzled than

Re: Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-07 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James, On 1/7/20 12:28 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 1/7/20 7:32 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> Hah, sorry about that. Nobody thought of specifying that only >> root can view the iptables stuff. :) > > Not your fault, nor that of anybody

Re: Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-07 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/7/20 7:32 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: Hah, sorry about that. Nobody thought of specifying that only root can view the iptables stuff. :) Not your fault, nor that of anybody else here; I blame the author of iptables and iptables-save: it should either (a) allow *anybody* to *see* the

Re: Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-07 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James, On 1/6/20 4:28 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > I think I found something, with the help of "MLu" on ServerFault: > > He advised me to try "iptables -L" and "iptables-save" again, only > this time "sudo" them. Hah, sorry about that. Nobody

Re: Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Heureka! Actually, I was thinking more "Sokath, his eyes uncovered!" And actually, at this point, I'm thinking I'm better off with Apache httpd handling port 80, since it would only be used for Let's Encrypt, and Let's Encrypt and certbot currently play much more nicely with it than with

Re: Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-06 Thread Peter Kreuser
James, >> Am 06.01.2020 um 22:28 schrieb James H. H. Lampert >> : >> >> I think I found something, with the help of "MLu" on ServerFault: >> >> He advised me to try "iptables -L" and "iptables-save" again, only this time >> "sudo" them. >> >> When I did "iptables -L" under root

Breakthrough, Re: Let's Encrypt with Tomcat?

2020-01-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I think I found something, with the help of "MLu" on ServerFault: He advised me to try "iptables -L" and "iptables-save" again, only this time "sudo" them. When I did "iptables -L" under root privileges, I still only got column headings, but when I did "iptables-save" under root privileges,