At 17:21 1/08/2002, Peter Rundle sent this up the stick: >Ok I suspect that you are droping the returning packets from >the server you are trying to telnet to, I.E the telnet packet >goes out but the reply packet is being dropped. Try setting the >input policy to accept for 30 secs and see if it works, if so >then set it back to drop and add > > iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > >To your fireall. > >Alternatively with a policy of drop for outbound packets you >might be dropping the outbound telnet packet. I haven't trawled >through them trying to match rules to your destination host. If >the above doesn't work, try changing the outbound policy for 30 >secs and see if that fixes it, then add the appropriate rule.
Surely if this were the case then nothing would be working from the firewall - the odd thing is that I can use lynx from the firewall without a problem. I'll try your suggestion in any case. Thanks, Rob -- Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you're an arsehole. This is random quote 726 of a collection of 1254 [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
