On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Dimitri Rodis <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  *2.0-BETA5 *(i386) built on Mon Feb 21 15:43:32 EST 2011
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> I am seeing the above occur maybe once a day or once every other day, but
> the source IP address is in an alias that is a list of aliases (and that
> list contains my mail server aliases). Whenever I see this, I manually try
> to telnet to the same IP on port 25 and the traffic is passed, yet the mail
> server shows a failed connection attempt in the logs which coincides with
> the firewall log as above. I have a rule that explicitly allows port tcp/25
> as a destination from my inbound mail servers alias group, and then there is
> a rule right beneath that rule that explicitly blocks outbound SMTP from all
> IP addresses on the subnet, and I have logging turned on for that rule. So,
> the rule beneath the one that should be triggered is being triggered
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> Is there a Bug/Race condition in rule evaluation??
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No, those are RSTs and FINs coming after the state is closed, expected
behavior.
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Logs_show_%22blocked%22_for_traffic_from_a_legitimate_connection,_why%3F

<http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Logs_show_%22blocked%22_for_traffic_from_a_legitimate_connection,_why%3F>

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