I am having a problem with a ipchain rule scripting for a connection to the ISPs usenet server. All other TCP protocols running work fine with their rule sets; www, irc, ssh, real, icq etc. I set the var of the news server as: NEWS_SERVER=" " [ with its domain within that]. ______________________________________________________ Then I call that from input/output rules as such: ipchains -A input -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -p tcp ! -y \ -s $NEWS_SERVER 119 \ -d $IPADDR $UNPRIVPORTS -j ACCEPT ipchains -A output -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -p tcp \ -s $IPADDR $UNPRIVPORTS \ -d $NEWS_SERVER 119 -j ACCEPT ______________________________________________________ Note this is the exact same syntax as I have used for other TCP protocols such as POP client, Finger client, http client, ssh etc etc and they work fine. I have pinged the usenet server from the ISP and it is up and running. Anyone have any suggestions to solve this problem is much welcomed. I would be greatly appreciative of someone's expertise. Thanx GSM _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
