Hi, I've installed LM7.2 recently. I am really impressed by the good job done
by the guys at Mandrake.
Well, here is my question:
I am connecting to the internet via ppp and a modem. As I usually stay
connected during most part of the day I want to have a firewall. After
reading some of this list's messages, I configured the "share internet
connection" in drakconf. That installed me Bind, which i didn't install
before and added the scripts /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall etc... After looking at
them, I've noticed that it only enables ip masquerading for my net
(192.168.0.0/24). It also enables some other ports for apps like quake and
the sort. Well, obiously, I'd like to have my ports filtered by ipchains or
any other thing, but would like to have some kind of script to ease the
operation. Anyway, any basic guidelines to firewalling? any place to start
reading? or is there any package i missed?
As a result of using drakconf and enabling the "sharing internet connection",
fetchmail refuses to start when I am not connected to the internet. I use it
in daemon mode to download my mail every 11 minutes. Before I could execute
it and sent it to background with any problem. Now it says it cannot find the
DNS entry for my pop server... Any ideas? Is this related to the firewall?
Thanks a lot!
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Saludos desde Sevilla
