"John R. Jackson" wrote: > >I wondered for a while there whether the word firewall in the subject of a > >message caused the mailing list software to filter it out... ;-) > > It normally does. Clearly it's broken and needs to be fixed. :-) :-)
<g> > >Did you see my earlier question about connection tracking? ... > > I did. Both times :-). We were getting some pretty high message volumes there, and i thought it must have been lost in the crowd. > But I have no idea what "connection tracking" > or "netfilter" is. Netfilter is the Linux kernel firewalling code (usually synonymous with "iptables", but i think that's technically wrong). Connection tracking is netfilter's facility to maintain state about connections. This is required in order to let Amanda traverse firewalls where both directions are filtered, since the ports in the client -> server direction are random. > ... > >... Would another list (e.g. amanda developers or whatever > >it's called) be a more appropriate place to ask the questions? > > Questions involving coding should (in general) go to amanda-hackers. I'm hoping that there will be no coding involved. :-) I'm not adverse to submitting a few patches, but i haven't got the time to go (re)writing major subsystems. Paul http://paulgear.webhop.net
