Rolf Pedersen wrote: > > As just a thought, in guarddog, kde's iptables firewall gui > configurator, I have to allow DNS in the internet zone (services allowed > from the internet to the machine). It might not even be relevant to > your situation but I gave up quickly on trying to learn how to use > shorewall and tried guarddog (urpme shorewall, urpmi guarddog). It is
I persisted, mainly because I was unaware of guarddog... > in the 9.1 contrib/ directory, available on the mirrors and > urpmi.addmedia-able from http://plf.zarb.org/ -> > http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ Actually, the problem is almost certainly in Shorewall. I had a similar problem, which started straight after I tried to confugute Connection Sharing. That involved the installation of Shorewall, which up till then I had not installed. Whereas previously I'd had no problems accessing the Internet, after installing Shorewall I got nothing (zero, nada, zilch...). I tracked it down eventually to the fact that Shorewall was installed but not running. Try one of these options... First, if you only have your own machine, and are not sharing the connection with any other machines, use "K-->Configuration-->Packaging-->Remove Software to remove Shorewall from your system completely. Your connection should work fine after that... or If you are sharing the connection with an other machine, you need Shorewall to enable the sharing. So Try this... Open the Mandrake Control Center, click on "Security" and select the Firewall entry on the Right-hand side. In the next dialog tick the top box "Everything (no firewall)" and click OK. (Unless you have a static IP and/or sensitive material on your machine, this is enough for you. If you want to "fine-tune_ your firewall rules and policies, I recommend installing Webmin, and using that to set up the firewall. It offers much finer control over the ruleset. One of these procedures should work for you (My system... Mandrake 9.1/KDE3.1 on a Celeron 366, 384 MB, with a second machine sharing via eth0.) -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia
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