[gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread James
Adam Carter gmail.com> writes: > Anyone advocating stateless firewalls in 2013 deserves scrutiny. I would > be asking for some evidence there is a performance issue, and that the > best solution to the problem is to turn off stateful inspection. There are lots of tools and approaches to secu

Re: [gentoo-user] problems merging python packages

2013-05-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 May 2013, at 13:54, Tamer Higazi wrote: > >> Stupid question, but did you run emerge as root or with sudo? > > answer to stupid response: > > as a normal user you wouldn't be capable to merge anything. > > OF COURSE I DID IT AS ROOT! I was reluctant to reply at first, but since you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-21 Thread James Cloos
> "D" == Dale writes: D> I thought about renaming my config to *.old and trying that. Thing is, D> I have YEARS worth of emails on here that I don't want to lose or anything. Start it with: seamonkey -no-remote -ProfileManager create a new profile and then start that profile. Does i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Carter
Anyone advocating stateless firewalls in 2013 deserves scrutiny. I would be asking for some evidence there is a performance issue, and that the best solution to the problem is to turn off stateful inspection.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Neal, > > As for the --sport flag for OUTPUT, should it not be left arbitrary? > The SSH daemon should use unprivileged ports between 1024 and 65535. > The only daemon I know thus far that does not is NTP which is > hardwired to 123 both ways

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-21 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/20/2013 07:08 PM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue. When I leave >> Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connection to the >> internet. If I open Firefox, it works fine. I can ping in a Konsole >> too. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/20/2013 07:08 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue. When I leave > Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connection to the > internet. If I open Firefox, it works fine. I can ping in a Konsole > too. In Seamonkey tho, not even a sim

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2013 12:09:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I thought about renaming my config to *.old and trying that. Thing is, >> I have YEARS worth of emails on here that I don't want to lose or >> anything. > Create another user and see how it works for them. That way your co

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 May 2013 12:09:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > I thought about renaming my config to *.old and trying that. Thing is, > I have YEARS worth of emails on here that I don't want to lose or > anything. Create another user and see how it works for them. That way your config stays untouched. > I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2013 07:45:28 -0700, Fast Turtle wrote: > >>> Under proxies, I have direct connection checked. I forgot to mention >>> that even tho I checked it to make sure how it was set up. I hope >>> this is something besides a bug since it affects both versions in the

[gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Neal, As for the --sport flag for OUTPUT, should it not be left arbitrary? The SSH daemon should use unprivileged ports between 1024 and 65535. The only daemon I know thus far that does not is NTP which is hardwired to 123 both ways. Thanks Guys, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Thank you so much for your responses. I agree Alan, total pain in the neck!!! But it's a ticket that was passed down to me. We moved the stateful firewalls inside the network, broken down to each department. But as a first on site defense on our BGP router running Quagga, we only

[gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
On 5/21/13, Neal Murphy wrote: > You still aren't accepting *each* direction. Either accept each direction > with > explicit rules or rewrite the rules so they apply to both directions at > once. > The former is probably easier to understand months later, even though it is > > more verbose. > > Me

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Jarry
On 21-May-13 17:07, Nick Khamis wrote: We recently moved our stateful firewall inside, and would like to strip down the firewall at our router connected to the outside world. The problem I am experiencing is getting things to work properly without connection tracking. I hope I am not in breach of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/05/2013 18:01, Nick Khamis wrote: > For testing purposes I changed the ssh rule to: > > -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT > -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.2.5 --dport 22 -j DROP > > And still no go. As mentioned before, everything works fine until I > try to close up t

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/05/2013 17:07, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We recently moved our stateful firewall inside, and would like to > strip down the firewall at our router connected to the outside world. > The problem I am experiencing is getting things to work properly > without connection tracking.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
>> Looks like the packet never gets to the tcp chain. what is --syn? It seems that way I am not sure what --syn is actually. But even if I comment it out it does not work. Also, for testing I changed the SSH rule to allow bidirectional traffic until this is fixed: -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp --dport

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 May 2013 07:45:28 -0700, Fast Turtle wrote: > > Under proxies, I have direct connection checked. I forgot to mention > > that even tho I checked it to make sure how it was set up. I hope > > this is something besides a bug since it affects both versions in the > > tree. :-? > if it'

[gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
For testing purposes I changed the ssh rule to: -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.2.5 --dport 22 -j DROP And still no go. As mentioned before, everything works fine until I try to close up the rest of the ports not opened up in the chains "UDP"

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread the guard
Вторник, 21 мая 2013, 11:07 -04:00 от Nick Khamis : > Hello Everyone, > > We recently moved our stateful firewall inside, and would like to > strip down the firewall at our router connected to the outside world. > The problem I am experiencing is getting things to work properly > without connec

[gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, We recently moved our stateful firewall inside, and would like to strip down the firewall at our router connected to the outside world. The problem I am experiencing is getting things to work properly without connection tracking. I hope I am not in breach of mailing list rules howe

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-21 Thread Fast Turtle
On Mon, 20 May 2013 21:36:07 -0500 Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > > > What is the path that Seamonkey takes to get to the internet? > > > > > > The path is determined by the proxy settings. If there's no proxy > > configured its just straight out. Sounds like a bug to me. > > Under pro

Re: [gentoo-user] howto on setting up rootfs on ZFS?

2013-05-21 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Look at the modules link on the Rescue CD pages, it has a link to a ZFS > module file. This includes a script to rebuild the ISO including the ZFS > modules, I've used it several times with success, the only thing the > documentation fails t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems merging python packages

2013-05-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 May 2013 02:42:08 +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: > walt, I am just confused because the entire system is totally unstable > and I need to update it Your original post mentioned a failure on just one package. If there is a deeper problem you need to tell us about it. -- Neil Bothwick