One follow up: Also have your clients upgrade to the AOL 8 or higher. ( I think it's v.9 now). The older ones had "trouble" allowing access to certain sites. I think CS is owned by AOL.
HTH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry M. Howell II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 1:46 PM Subject: [TriLUG] Re: Firewall for my webserver (IPTABLES) > On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 11:38:41PM -0600, Jerry M. Howell II wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm curently running adminning my wifes webserver at > > gamma.hostbyk.com. We are running redhat 7.3 with a generic 2.4.20 > > kernel custom compiled with all the iptables/NAT goodies. I go to > > enable the firewall and thats where I runn into problems. I can view > > the webserver, about 75% of my clients can but there are some that go > > through compuserve, earthlink and aol that can't seem to access > > anything once I start the firewall. No email, ftp, can't ping it or > > pull up a webpage. Thought it was probably ICMP so I allowed that > > through but still nothing. Might someone have any sugestions? here is > > the output from /usr/local/iptables-save wich is iptables-1.2.8 BTW. > > > > My firewall script can be found at http://www.jmhowell.com/fire.html if > > you wanna look that over as well. Thnx for any advice that can be given. > > Any time warner admins feal free to spill the beens as well if you know > > of anything :) > > > Just a little addition. I think I have the issue narowed down. My cousin > can access the sites through win2k, and linux but not through win98, the > clients that can't access it are also useing win98. As crazy as it > sounds I think it's a windows 98 problem accessing dns even through the > firewall even though the proper ports are open. Any ideas? > > -- > Jerry M. Howell II > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
