Hi Tom,

Tom Eastep a écrit :
> Tom Eastep wrote:
>   
>> Tom Eastep wrote:
>>     
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Guess what ! My mail server (hosted behind my home dynIP adsl
>>>> connection) is  not accessible anymore since I updated my firewall
>>>> version and didn't noticed at first sight they have switched from
>>>> shorewall 2.2.4 to 3.4.2 (not very correct for a supposed stable
>>>> branch)... "it was too late" and I started investigating why my old
>>>> rules didn't work anymore ... and here I am ;)
>>>>         
>> Then please start participating in the Shorewall Beta programs. If you
>> do, you won't have these kinds of problems and you will be making a
>> positive contribution to Open Source Software rather than sitting on the
>> sidelines telling us what a bad job we're doing.
>>     
>
>   
Sorry, I may have not make myself understood correctly :

I didn't criticize (in a bad way, only constructive!) the work that DL
developpers do as I contributed to this project from the time I started
using it (maybe 4 or 5 years ago) by feedbacks, answers on the ML for
things I know to ease work of core developpers, patches, add-ons and
various improvements.

I certainly think too fast and write too slow as the thought was that
we, DL developpers and contributors, should pay a little more attention
to version upgrades and implications on configuration files changes to
inform "normal" users from having hardtimes.

I do contribute actively to another project called rapla, for
person/resouces planning, with some heavy testing that allowed me to
raise several Important and vicious bugs I couldn't correct myself (I'm
not a developper, neither C nor java, perl, python ...), but helped  in
that I provided the author with really detailled bugreport he was able
to fix the problem in a few minutes.

In a general way, as I've done with shorewall, I don't keep for me the
small (or less small) tips I encounters on my way when using free
software as sometimes it allows improvings ... I make my remarks and the
developpers consider it or not, but I've done "my job".

As a freelance sysadmin, for more than 5 years now, I struggle to work
exclusively with Open-Source Software, was it on Windows Linux or any
other system, as an active militant, and also only for humanistic
clients, which is for me the only way to continue working with pleasure
as an IT professional, despite the fact I can painfully pay my bills
each month.

I'll keep my inscription on the Shorewall Users Mailling List as it is
also a good way to improve my knowledge about it, and occasionally  help
but I'm far from beeing an iptables Guru and have not much sparetime
these days because of a health problem.

> At any rate, please see
> http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/3.4/shorewall-3.4.4/known_problems.txt.
>
> Known problem #7 addresses your problem.
>
>   

Again, I whish to thank You a lot for your really fast reaction,

Best Regards,

MaNU
> -Tom
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