Good question, that's why when Mate W. asked me last week about I began
reading up on firewalls.
My firewall was installed by the guy who set up my system, for a fee. A nice
enough guy, but that was about 3 months ago when I first got my linux
machine.
He also set up the gateway, which I was able to replicate myself, by
figuring it
out.
It seems that there are a number of different firewalls out there, and
mostly
they are a collection of utilities, which as a group are called a firewall.
So my firewall is on the Linux machine, 192.169.0.1 which is connected to
my cable modem (effectively a router for 209.6.200.157)
One of the previous emails had the names of 3 mailing lists, but not full
names,
and this weekend I'm going to try to find those.
Also, on rlz.ne.mediaone.net, there is a big write-up on firewalls, and it
is
written by the guy who taught the guy who sold me my system about firewalls,
so, I think that will probably have enough clues so I can figure out what
utility
is controlling the IP address acceptability for port 110.
I've got a lot of hunting to do.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robbie Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 6:43 PM
> To: Alex Miller
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: New qmail list et al
>
>
> OK. So where's the firewall that you have to go through?
>
> At 10:23 AM 7/1/99 , you wrote:
> >> What IPs is you internal network using. You probably will need to setup
> >> qmail ON your firewall for it to function correctly.
> >
> >Are you saying that qmail (an MTA) might need to be installed differently
> >with a firewall in place for it function correctly (i.e. for
> pop3 to work)?
> >Someone said that a firewall setup has nothing whatsoever to do
> with an MTA.
> >
> >Well, the IP's are as follows, as near as I understand.
> >
> >209.6.200.157 is the IP address of my cable modem
> >cybergood.net, mail.cybergood.net, linux.cybergood.net,
> goodhouse.net, and
> >others all point to that IP address.
> >Currently I am using EasyDNS to handle that. I think?
> >that mail.cybergood.net is set up as an MX, I'm not
> >sure, but the EasyDNS setup, (using PHP) does have a box
> >that specifies it as being the "mail handler" which
> >probably means that mail.cybergood.net is an MX record.
> >
> >192.168.0.1 is the internal IP address of my Linux box
> >192.168.0.2 is the IP address of one windows box.
> >192.168.0.3 is the IP address of another windows box
> >which is rarely on.
> >
> >Those are all the IP numbers.
> >
> >Alex Miller
>
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