Once again, I battle iptables.  This time it's for CPAN.  I have the
following defined on a system:

*filter
:INPUT DROP [37:4772]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [6711:302807]
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp ! --tcp-option 2 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
COMMIT

    Ad whenever I need to do CPAN updates, it just never connects to anything,
except maybe lynx (LWP, ncftp, ftp, everything else within CPAN fails).  As
soon as I shut off iptables, it works just fine, so that tells me it has to be
one of the rules, but which one?

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