Re: [expert] Shorewall

[Joseph Loo]

I understand that, but it helps to let you know that the dns resolution 
has been solved. It will at least comeback with the ip address which 
indicates the dns is okay. That is what I was looking for on that 
particuliar ping.

Larry Sword wrote:

Joseph Loo wrote:

I recently installed a fresh copy of Mandrake 9.1 and included the 
shorewall firewall. I have a modem hookup. When I try to ping a site 
e.g. www.ibm.com the system never seems to respond. It looks like the 
firewall is preventing something from happening. I have enable the 
shorewall to allow everything and none. If I have none, I can ping 
specific addresses with no problems. It seems to me that the program 
is not allowing the standard dns client information to either 
broadcast or receive.

Note, I also found out that the local systems tied via an ehternet 
connection will not allow me to ping any addresses. It seems to me 
that the system allows the ping but does not allow the responds to 
come back. This is true when everything is blocked but it allows when 
nothing is blocked.

At this time I have 2 problems, the firewall can not distinguish the 
local network versus the internet (I use mandrak configuration tool 
to add the modem into the syste but no such luck). and the rules 
needed to allow the internet to communicate.

Some systems are set not to respond to pings...



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