On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Brett Rasmussen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering if someone can help me understand what I need to do here. I'm > not very savvy about firewall rules at all, so the Jack & Jill version of > any direction you might offer would be appreciated.
I'm not very good at this kind of thing, but I'll give it a shot... >>> Jack and Jill went up the hill <<< Presumably, this is egress filtering. So, something like this should work: sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT >>> To fetch a pail of water. <<< Lot's of ways to do this, but here's an easy and pretty common one: wget -O - -q --user-agent=bucket http://www.google.com/search?q=pail+of+water | html2text >>> Jack fell down and broke his crown <<< It's anyone's guess what this means, but my money is on "ICMP destination-unreachable" You'll need to get wireshark wedged in there to be sure. >>> And Jill came tumbling after. <<< This one is pretty obvious: sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Well, I'm sure the list has more wisdom to share, but I thought I'd do my part. Good luck! Gabe /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
