Hi all I 've had to go back to 8.1. Whatever you have done with security is a disaster.
Telneting in to the public interface, ie the one connected to the internet,,impossible no matter what, and rules are loaded to iptables, all thats eeen is martin errors in the syslog. I use xinetd for port redirection to another machine behind the firewall. this did exactly the same...martian errors, and heres the worst bit afetr running for 10 hrs , all attempts to send mail and receive mail got connection refused errors, smtp, pop3,imap all the same, checked with the isp, 1 hr on the phone. not at their end. loaded 8.1 and mail again QED I dont know who is responsibe for the mandrake security MSEC and whatever, I suspect gated is being used, but nothing showed on a "ps ax" Whoever should realise that not every one want a system which can only work one way. I need to be able to telnet, ssh from anywhere in the world. This is absolutely USELESS to me if I can only use it from home. Xinetd redirection works well under 8.1, so does bastille-firewall the same config scripts were used on 8.2, so again where is the backawrd or even in this case forward compatability . Ok the 3d side is good, none of the problems with the later kernels on 8.1. In its currrent state 8.2b3 is a TOY not a working system, and as for comments like add to hosts.allow on the remote machine...should'nt need to, it was fully functional before 8.2b3 you guys are so paranoid over security, this time you've gone far too far MSEC level 99 is not required. I logged into a machine in the States, Seattle, and tried telneting to all the ports that are redirected...martian errors tried port 22 ssh,,,martian errors it did manage to return a ping. I also saw tcpdump being turned on and off with ipv4 errors. If any one wants something on the networking side tested no problem. If the ipip tunnels had'nt functioned, 8.2 would have been off in 1/2 hr. interfaces that are labelled as internal fuctioned, as did lo external interfaces would not function. Flushing iptables had no effect. system in use 700MHzduron , 512M ram 10GB hd, kernels 2.4.17-19mdk & 2.4.18-2mdk.. In its current state 8.2 could not be released as it cant be used as a server.. shame it looked good on the install, apart from the freeze when trying a live update, If a table of bug levels I'd put this one on Egyptian level BR Richard
