Andreas =?utf-8?q?G=C3=BCnther?= wrote:

>I use shorewall at Debian Linux, Lenny and Squeeze, On the machine with the
>firewall I have to stop shorewall for use "aptitude update" or "aptitude
>install".
>If shorewall runs I cannot use aptitude on the firewall, but I can 
>use aptitude
>on the other machines which use the same firewall.
>
>Is there a special rule and a macro to allow the use of aptitude on the
>firewall?

I'm assuming you have a fw -> net (or default) policy that's blocking 
all outbound traffic from the firewall.

You need to allow connections from your firewall machine to the 
relevant Debian sources. This may be HTTP or FTP (most likely HTTP) 
depending on the sources defined in /etc/apt/sources.list.

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