On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:57:54AM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> 
> uhh. mabye you should at all allow all localhost traffic:
> 
> iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
> 

Right.  This is what I get for posting inebriated. :p

> and some outgoing traffic such as HTTP, DNS and others:
> 
> iptables -t filter -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -t filter -A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
> 

Which of course depends on what you're trying to do.

> also you can modify the rules in the /etc/sysconfig/iptables
> file which is always a good starting point when setting up your
> own rules. 
> 
> also doing things the RedHat way, you can use the redhat-config-network
> tool to configure your firewall settings. i think. or was that some
> other tool (redhat-config-*). 
> 

Much easier to use the lokkit program than to fiddle around with their
many redhat-config-* programs.

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