On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Civileme wrote:
> "Eric L. Damron" wrote:
>
> > I didn't have time to become an ipchain expert before bringing up a firewall
> > on a home server. (It's like the internet is a parrona filled river and my
> > server is a piece of meat!) so I went out to :
> > http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html
> >
> > There is an automated tool that gave me a great start! However, there are a
> > couple of things that I would like to change but not really understanding
> > ipchains can't.
> >
> > 1. My server can't send email out while the firewall is up. I need to be
> > able to do this.
> >
> > 2. My Daughter uses Gamespy to play Quake 2 but the firewall prevents this.
> >
> > Below is the complete firewall. If any expert out there sees the answers to
> > my questions or any improvements I would be grateful for the help.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> 1. I read your original message. SMTP_SERVER is not a single address -- In
> other words, more than one relay agent may answer out there--this is likely the
> source of the problem. If they are confined to a particular address space, you
> could use 24.0.0.0/24 in place of $SMTP_SERVER for example. If their address
> is more uncertain than that, then $ANYWHERE will work and you will need to
> relay on security for mail by setting up your local mailserver properly.
>
> Civileme
just vagrantly ignore their load balanceing and set the relay to an ip,
sounds the best...
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